books
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Chess Story by Stefan Zweig is a pitch-perfect novella that uses the royal game to investigate humanity and its most curious impulses.
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With The Universal Baseball Association, Robert Coover uses the character of J. Henry Waugh to investigate the state of midcentury masculinity in America.
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Throughout Lost Worlds, Patrick Wyman investigates multiple civilizations across world history to explore the resilience and creativity of humanity.
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Throughout Expensive Basketball, Shea Serrano waxes eloquently and hilariously about the people, plays, and personas that make his favorite sport look really good.
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Originally published in 1989, Dancing at the Edge of the World by Ursula K. Le Guin is a tremendous collection of her speeches and essays between 1976-1988.
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A shorter novel by Elena Ferrante, The Lost Daughter is a character study on the conflict between motherhood and adulthood that refuses any easy answers.
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A humorous yet thoughtful exploration of gender, sexuality, and class across several centuries of British life, Orlando by Virginia Woolf is a wonderful read.
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Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor tells the story of a poor, rural village in Mexico wracked by violence after the death of The Witch.
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Searoad by Ursula K. Le Guin is a series of interconnected short stories about a fictional town on the Oregon coast and the lives of its inhabitants across several decades.
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Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders combines magic, generational trauma, queer love, and overcoming obstacles to remarkable effect.
