Books like Bluets
Two hundred and forty numbered fragments about the colour blue, desire, depression, loneliness and a friend's paralysis, arranged as a lyric essay.
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The White Book
A Korean writer living in Warsaw meditates on white things, snow, swaddling cloth, salt, blank pages, as a way to grieve the sister her mother lost two hours after birth.
The Argonauts
Maggie Nelson writes about falling in love with the artist Harry Dodge, her pregnancy and his transition, braiding memoir with critical theory in a book that is entirely its own.
The Writing Life
Dillard's short book on the daily work of writing, the cabins and studies where she has done it, and what it costs, with a detour to a stunt pilot who wrote in the sky.
The Year of Magical Thinking
After her husband's sudden death and her daughter's hospitalisation, Didion keeps a forensic record of what magical thinking her grief conjures and what it refuses to.
Blue Nights
In the aftermath of her daughter Quintana's death, Didion turns the pale light of late summer on her own motherhood, her own failing body, and what it means to be the last one left.
Dept. of Speculation
A wife and mother in New York tracks her disintegrating marriage in spare, telegraphic fragments that add up to a devastating portrait of modern domestic life.
The Empathy Exams
Essays that start from Jamison's work as a medical actor, paid to perform symptoms for students, and move through Morgellons, ultramarathons and her own body to ask what empathy is for.
No One Is Talking About This
A poet's life is split between a pre-internet childhood and the social media hellscape of the present, told in fragments that capture the vertigo of the timeline.
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Seven linked parts on forgetting, personal, political and erotic, as Czechs live under the Soviet occupation and remembering becomes an act of resistance.
Flights
A constellation of short pieces on travel and the human body, from a woman obsessed with anatomical specimens to Chopin's heart being smuggled home to Warsaw and a man whose wife and child vanish on a Croatian island.
In Memory of Memory
A Russian poet sifts the boxes of a Jewish great-aunt into a century of letters, photographs, and reflections on what memory keeps and why.
Notes of a Crocodile
Lazi, a lesbian student at National Taiwan University in the late 1980s, keeps notes on her loves and her friends, broken up by the story of a crocodile in a human suit.