“Sister Outsider” by Audre Lorde
Decades later, Lorde’s arguments for freedom and love, even when captured in anger, endure–better, they are more common today than ever.
Stigmata” by Helene Cixous
Feminist and theorist, Cixous dives into the sub-ether of words, uncomfortably settled into her subcortical reveries into language and self.
“Fun Home” by Alison Bechdel
Bechdel’s now famous work of trauma, grief, sexuality, and family dysfunction paralleled by rich literary allusion is, if anything, too brief.
“Faust” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The magnificent poetic work of Goethe retains the feel of the original German from Priest, if not the accuracy and nuance.
“Exit West” by Mohsin Hamid
Hamid’s magical telling of the realities of immigration and the denials from distance hit powerfully; a necessary read.
“Killing Commendatore” by Haruki Murakami
A sprawling and less adept story while also somewhat troubling in its uses of women characters; nonetheless, enough satisfying of the Murakami-scape to be worthwhile for fans.
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