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1) Intimacies
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"A novel from the author of A Separation, a taut and electrifying story about a woman caught between many truths. An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and identities, she is looking for a place to finally call home. She's drawn into simmering personal dramas: her lover, Adriaan, is separated from his wife but still entangled in his marriage. Her friend Jana witnesses...
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A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2021
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE 2021 READS
AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A BEST BOOK OF 2021 FROM Washington Post, Vogue, Time, Oprah Daily, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Atlantic, Kirkus and Entertainment Weekly
“Intimacies is a haunting, precise,...
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE 2021 READS
AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A BEST BOOK OF 2021 FROM Washington Post, Vogue, Time, Oprah Daily, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Atlantic, Kirkus and Entertainment Weekly
“Intimacies is a haunting, precise,...
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Intimacies, Received signals agency, as trauma is
held to the light and finally named.
In this astonishing second collection by Taneum Bambrick,
violence hides in the glint of the carving knife-every intimacy a shadow, every
memory a maze to navigate. Set primarily in rural Southern Spain, Intimacies,
Received moves through streets and fields, households and years, following
a survivor of sexual assault as she painstakingly reassembles a narrative...
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No culture is ever completely successful or satisfied with its synthesis of romantic love, companionship, and sexual desire. Whether the setting is a busy metropolis or a quiet farming village, a tension always exists between a community's sexual habits and customs and what it believes to be the proper context for love. Even in Western societies, we prefer sexual passion to romance and companionship, and no study of any culture has shown that individuals...
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Sudden Intimacies is a compilation of stories of Jim Davis and his experiences in becoming immediately close to strangers in the practice of medicine from medical school, internship, residency to practice in a small town, then in an emergency room to, finally, a medical doctor at a university. The stories are full of humor, emotion, and caring. Jim retells these tales in a manner that helps educate the reader as well as delight the heart. If you know...
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Unraveled Intimacies will take you into the landscape of four women's stories: "All the Boys" by Paula Gillison, "The Art of Leaving" by Mary Jo McLaughlin, "a map on the heart like a scar from a knife" by Lisa Loving, and "Unaffiliated" by Sema Wray. Within these brave, true, and unzipped narratives, you will find women with sass, bootys and unholy motives who journey through bad boys and even worse men; pastel chicks and mother assassins, how tenderly...
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An essay collection that demonstrates how emotional ties and intimate affiliations remain critical to the dimensions of modern Christianity.
Scholars of religion have come a long way since William James famously made of religion a matter between man and his maker. For decades now, they have been attentive to the ways in which religion takes shape as the product of broad social forces, focusing on the dynamics of power and culture as heuristics for...
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In Abolitionist Intimacies, El Jones examines the movement to abolish prisons through the Black feminist principles of care and collectivity. Understanding the history of prisons in Canada in their relationship to settler colonialism and anti-Black racism, Jones observes how practices of intimacy become imbued with state violence at carceral sites including prisons, policing and borders, as well as through purported care institutions such as hospitals...
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Una novela electrizante que se pregunta hasta qué punto llegamos a conocer a aquellos que nos rodean
Una joven se muda de Nueva York a La Haya para empezar a trabajar como intérprete en el Tribunal Penal Internacional. La plenitud que le procura su nueva vida –una estimulante red de conocidos y amigos, un buen empleo, una incipiente historia de amor– le hace sentir que tal vez ha encontrado, como anhelaba, un lugar al que llamar hogar. Sin...
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'Jason Weathers rescues an injured woman and finds himself embroiled in an enticingly bizarre encounter with alien adventurers. The enigmatic self-named Roci joins Jason's band of free-spirited mountain hikers for a mescaline drug experience, and he quickly becomes immersed in a dual adventure within his conscious and super-conscious realities. Triggered by sexual orgasm into an altered state, he mind-visits our world's ancient extraterrestrial garden...
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An extradisciplinary investigation into the radical potentials of design by the global Memefest network.
This book is an investigation of the key aspects of capitalist domination and resistance to it through design; its five sections explore dialogue, power, land, interventions, and radical praxis. Vodeb's curated chapters engage radical intimacies with design and connects it with media, communication, and art. Radical intimacies imply a closeness...
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Pop Song is a book about love and about falling in love—with a place, or a painting, or a person—and the joy and terror inherent in the experience of that love. Plumbing the well of culture for clues and patterns about love and loss—from Agnes Martin's abstract paintings to James Turrell's transcendent light works, and Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet to Frank Ocean's Blonde—Pham writes of her youthful attempts to find meaning in travel,...
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The first book to explore food allergies in the United States from the perspective of disability and race
Are food allergies disabilities? What structures and systems ensure the survival of some with food allergies and not others? Allergic Intimacies is a groundbreaking critical engagement with food allergies in their cultural representations, advocacy, law, and stories about personal experiences from a disability studies perspective. Author Michael...
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Human rights are politically fraught in Turkey, provoking suspicion and scrutiny among government workers for their anti-establishment left-wing connotations. Nevertheless, with eyes worldwide trained on Turkish politics, and with accession to the European Union underway, Turkey's human rights record remains a key indicator of its governmental legitimacy. Bureaucratic Intimacies shows how government workers encounter human rights rhetoric through...
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In Care of the Soul, Thomas Moore explored the importance of nurturing the soul and struck a chord nationwide-the book became a long-term bestseller, topping charts across the country. Building on that book's wisdom, Soul Mates explores how relationships of all kinds enhance our lives and fulfill the needs of our souls. Moore emphasizes the difficulties that inevitably accompany many relationships and focuses on the need to work through these differences...
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This book builds upon Irina Carlota [Lotti] Silber's nearly 25 years of ethnographic research centered in Chalatenango, El Salvador, to follow the trajectories-geographic, temporal, storied-of several extended Salvadoran families. Traveling back and forth in time and across borders, Silber narrates the everyday unfolding of diasporic lives rich with acts of labor, love, and renewed calls for memory, truth, and accountability in El Salvador's long...
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A poignant account of everyday polygamy and what its regulation reveals about who is viewed as an "Other"
In the past thirty years, polygamy has become a flashpoint of conflict as Western governments attempt to regulate certain cultural and religious practices that challenge seemingly central principles of family and justice. In Forbidden Intimacies, Melanie Heath comparatively investigates the regulation of polygamy in the United States, Canada,...
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An introspective look at how the experiences of an intensive care unit physician helped shape his optimistic worldview during a thirty-two-year medical career.
In Blessings and Sudden Intimacies: Musings of a Pediatric Intensivist, Dr. Greg Stidham entertains, inspires, and expresses gratitude for the experiences that have enriched his life. Not only does he reveal many of the extraordinary things he's experienced, but he also opens a way for us...
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