Books like Sun of Consciousness
Glissant's first book, written as a young Martinican in Paris, moves between prose and verse to think about exile, the Caribbean and what France looks like from the outside.
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A Small Place
Kincaid addresses the tourist directly as she describes Antigua, the island where she grew up, and lays out what centuries of colonial rule and the corruption that followed have done to it.
The Labyrinth of Solitude
Paz's essays on the Mexican character, on the pachuco, the fiesta, death, and the masks Mexicans wear.
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
Césaire's book-length poem of a Martinican returning home from Paris, moving from disgust at the island's misery to a furious, exultant claim on Blackness, the founding text of Négritude.
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.
In a Free State
Linked stories of people adrift in foreign places; in the title novella, two English expatriates drive across an East African country in the middle of a coup.
On Photography
Six essays on what it means to see the world through photographs, and what the camera consumes, numbs and moralises away.
The Myth of Sisyphus
Camus asks whether life is worth living once you accept that the world will never answer the demand for meaning, and finds his answer in Sisyphus, rolling his boulder up the mountain forever.
Regarding the Pain of Others
Sontag returns to her On Photography territory a quarter-century later to ask what we do with images of atrocity, and whether there is a form of looking that is not a kind of spectator-sport.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein writes her own life in the voice of her partner Alice, from the salon at 27 rue de Fleurus with Picasso and Matisse to the First World War and the young Hemingway.
Minor Feelings
Hong writes about Asian-American shame, Richard Pryor, friendship, and why the minor feelings of a model-minority life refuse to stay put.
The Rebel
Camus's essay on rebellion and revolution: how the refusal to accept injustice turns, in history and in thought from the Marquis de Sade to the Soviet state, into murder.
Collected Poems 1948–1984
Walcott's poems from his first books in St Lucia to The Fortunate Traveller and Midsummer.