Tolentino’s writing is almost painfully self-aware (she goes to almost comical lengths to apologise to her readers for not providing concrete answers to the many apt questions she asks) and grapples with the daily minor existential questions that life without massive hardship poses to a college-educated New Yorker. And in Trick Mirror: Reflections On Self-Delusion, her first collection of essays, she sticks to what she knows best. Police said the crime occurred several months ago, but came to fore recently after the minor complained of abdominal pain.Jia Tolentino, now a staff writer at the New Yorker, is something of a specialist in sharp writing about millennial self-identity in the age of the internet, having begun her career at snark-blogs The Hairpin and Jezebel.
D’yan Forest says that while many of her friends have given up on sex, she’ll never stop craving intimacyBrowse 198 young men in speedos stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. Thomas BarrieAn 82-year-old singer-songwriter from New York City is looking for a good time. If you want a book equal parts empathy and self-doubt, read this. All of our problems are relatively minor, Tolentino admits, but to us, they’re huge there’s nothing wrong with that.
Thomas BarrieVineland isn’t Pynchon’s most widely read or respected novel and has always been unfairly overshadowed by V, Gravity’s Rainbow and The Crying Of Lot 49. As even Lockwood and Wallace each admit, it’s truly stunning. Even if you hate how badly and cynically Rabbit treats his alcoholic wife, his parochial in-laws and (minor spoilers) the sex worker he shacks up with, read Rabbit, Run for Updike’s prose. Updike’s protagonist and inarguable personal surrogate, Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, tries to flee this grind, not without some reason, but with disastrous results. But there are certain elements to Updike’s second major novel ( The Poorhouse Fair came out the year before) that will be recognisable to anyone working a nine-to-five in their early to mid-twenties, as the excitement and variety of youth morphs into the routine grind of adulthood.
Thomas BarrieOn the face of it, Q is a standard-issue historical thriller, best read at a frenzied pace on a Mediterranean sunlounger. For a Pynchon novel, it’s short – under 400 pages – and relatively easy to follow, and its heart doesn’t ever get lost among the high-concept ideas or wordplay. Vineland’s still typically, madly Pynchonian – there are psychic Zen ninjas a man named Zoyd who claims insanity benefit by ritually throwing himself through a plate-glass window each year a hippy radical with an irrepressible, self-destructive sexual appetite for fascists – but it is also a clarion call for all those who believe the utopian dream of the early 1960s (when much of the action takes place) was squandered in Reagan’s 1980s.
Eagle-eyed readers will note that “Luther Blissett” is actually the name of an English footballer who spent a brief period with AC Milan in the Eighties. But Q is also so much more than that. A career radical, he carries out a decades-long duel of wits that spans Germany, the Low Countries and Italy with a Catholic agent known only as “Q”, as historical characters such as Martin Luther and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V rise and fall around them.
Instead, Dee Brown, a white scholar and librarian at the University Of Illinois, explores the cruelty of Manifest Destiny and the inexorable encroachment of US territory on land that was inhabited by people who had vastly different ideas of property ownership to the incomers. Thomas BarrieThe first history of Native Americans written from an indigenous point of view and one steeped in the politics of counterculture (it was first published in 1970), Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee became a rallying cry for those who weren’t content to explain the contemporary plight of Native Americans using old racist arguments. Q’s antihero is an Anabaptist – an extreme sect for whom even private property was unacceptable – and his story can be read as an anti-capitalist allegory, or enjoyed for what it is: a gripping spy story. Rather, a leftist artistic collective of five Italian men collaborated on Q using his name as a pseudonym, and their radical politics can be detected every time the novel’s protagonist robs a duplicitous banker or rich merchant or plants a musket ball between the eyes of a papal soldier.
Sure, he thrived in the late Thirties with his Berlin fiction (wonderful, for the record), but as the Sixties commenced, he shifted his attention to Los Angeles: both literally and fictionally. Thomas BarrieChristoper Isherwood produced many literary masterpieces during his lifetime, but for us A Single Man secures the top spot. At times, the book tends towards the melodramatic, and it should be read with some skepticism regarding factual historical accuracy, but, ultimately, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee still does brilliantly what it was intended to do: to counter the narrative that white settlers in America were a “civilising” force and that their expansion westwards was anything other than a cynical land grab made possible by scientific racism. Time and again, white men double-cross the tribes they have signed treaties with, creating excuses to restart hostilities and moving men, women and children into smaller and smaller reservations on worse and worse land.
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Oscar is a morbidly overweight, second-generation Dominican immigrant who grows up in the Eighties and Nineties obsessed with pursuing beautiful girls (who continually rebuff him) and boasting a masterful knowledge of nerd culture, from Star Trek and Dungeons & Dragons to Stephen King. Yunior’s first outing, though, was as the chief narrator of Díaz’s Pulitzer-winning debut in 2007, The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao. Faye FearonAuthor Junot Díaz’s semiautobiographical short story A Cheater’s Guide To Love was published in The New Yorker in 2012 and focused on a serial cheater named Yunior and the breakup of his relationship. But the brilliance of the film stems from the brilliance of the book: Isherwood delves into the depths of the human soul, producing a prose that both captivates you and offers vital insight. If you recognise the title, it's likely because you've seen the film adaptation, directed by Tom Ford and starring Colin Firth. The book focuses on George Falconer, an English professor living in California who is struggling to find his place in society following the death of his partner, Jim.
In between, Khilnani unashamedly paints a portrait of a vast civilisation (or, more accurately, hundreds of localised, interdependent traditions) that offers a rejoinder to prime minister Narendra Modi’s right-wing Hindu nationalist philosophy. Each is eight or nine pages long he begins with Buddha and ends with Mumbai billionaire Dhirubhai Ambani. Thomas BarrieIncarnations is the perfect book to dip into, whether you’re on a journey on the Northern Line or through Bengal or Tamil Nadu – an introduction to India (technically, the Indian subcontinent, as he includes those from what would become Pakistan and Bangladesh) through 50 lives.
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