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In this bold, fascinating book, Eula Biss addresses a chronic
condition of fear - fear of the government, the medical
establishment, and what may be in your children's air, food,
mattresses, medicines, and vaccines. Reflecting on her own
experience as a new mother, Biss investigates the metaphors and
myths surrounding our conception of immunity and its implications
for the individual and the social body. She extends a conversation
with other mothers to meditations on Voltaire's Candide , Bram
Stoker's Dracula, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Susan Sontag's
AIDS and Its Metaphors, and beyond. On Immunity is an inoculation
against our fear and a moving account of how we are all
interconnected - our bodies and our fates.
'A major achievement.' CLAUDIA RANKINE 'Endlessly absorbing.'
SINEAD GLEESON 'A probing tour of capitalism and class.' MAGGIE
NELSON 'Exhilarating.' JENNY OFFILL A personal reckoning with the
intricacies of money, class and capitalism from the New York Times
bestselling author. Having just purchased her first home, Eula Biss
embarks on a roguish and risky self-audit of the value system she
has bought into. The result is Having and Being Had: a radical
interrogation of work, leisure and capitalism. Playfully ranging
from IKEA to Beyonce to Pokemon, across bars and laundromats and
universities, she asks, of both herself and her class, 'In what
have we invested? 'As a writer Eula Biss has two great gifts. The
first is her ability to reveal to the reader what has, all along,
been hidden in plain sight . . . Her other talent is for laying
bare our submerged fears . . . In Having and Being Had, both gifts
are on display . . . if you are not deeply discomfited by the time
you finish reading On Having and Being Had, you have no
conscience.' AMINATTA FORNA, GUARDIAN 'Calls on the controlled rush
of poetry and turns experience into art.' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
'Nuanced . . . Biss' sentences have retained a poet's precision.'
IRISH TIMES 'Eula Biss's prescient new book gave me new language
for things I didn't know I felt . . . A brilliant, lacerating
re-examination of our relationship to what we own and why, and who
in turn might own us.' ALEXANDER CHEE 'No contemporary writer I
know explores and confronts her own societal responsibilities
better than Eula Biss.' ALEKSANDER HEMON 'A meditation on race,
consumerism and the American caste system. And a wry, vivd
assessment of our spiritual moment. It is no accident that Having
and Being Had reads like the poems money would write if money wrote
poems.' JEET THAYIL
In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, influential poet
and feminist Adrienne Rich examines the patriarchic systems and
political institutions that define motherhood. Exploring her own
experience-as a woman, a poet, a feminist and a mother-she finds
the act of mothering to be both determined by and distinct from the
institution of motherhood as it is imposed on all women everywhere.
A "powerful blend of research, theory, and self-reflection" (Sandra
M. Gilbert, Paris Review), Of Woman Born revolutionised how women
thought about motherhood and their own liberation. With a stirring
new foreword from National Book Critics Circle Award-winning writer
Eula Biss, the book resounds with as much wisdom and insight today
as when it was first written.
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MAKE X collects memorable work published throughout the last ten
years by beloved Chicago literary magazine MAKE. Through fiction,
nonfiction, poetry, and reviews, alongside new visual art
portfolios, interviews, and stories from the editors, MAKE X honors
a decade of storytelling and literary rabble-rousing in Chicago.
Who is white, and why should we care? There was a time when the
immigrants of New York City’s Lower East Side—the Irish, the
Poles, the Italians, the Russian Jews—were not white, but now
“they” are. There was a time when the French-speaking working
classes of Quebec were told to “speak white,” that is, to speak
English. Whiteness is an allegorical category before it is
demographic. This volume gathers together some of the most
influential scholars of privilege and marginalization in
philosophy, sociology, economics, psychology, literature, and
history to examine the idea of whiteness. Drawing from their
diverse racial backgrounds and national origins, these scholars
weave their theoretical insights into essays critically informed by
personal narrative. This approach, known as “braided
narrative,” animates the work of award-winning author Eula Biss.
Moved by Biss’s fresh and incisive analysis, the editors have
assembled some of the most creative voices in this dialogue, coming
together across the disciplines. Along with the editors, the
contributors are Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Nyla R. Branscombe,
Drucilla Cornell, Lewis R. Gordon, Paget Henry, Ernest-Marie
Mbonda, Peggy McIntosh, Mark McMorris, Marilyn Nissim-Sabat, Victor
Ray, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Louise Seamster, Tracie L. Stewart,
George Yancy, and Heidi A. Zetzer.
Who is white, and why should we care? There was a time when the
immigrants of New York City’s Lower East Side—the Irish, the
Poles, the Italians, the Russian Jews—were not white, but now
“they” are. There was a time when the French-speaking working
classes of Quebec were told to “speak white,” that is, to speak
English. Whiteness is an allegorical category before it is
demographic. This volume gathers together some of the most
influential scholars of privilege and marginalization in
philosophy, sociology, economics, psychology, literature, and
history to examine the idea of whiteness. Drawing from their
diverse racial backgrounds and national origins, these scholars
weave their theoretical insights into essays critically informed by
personal narrative. This approach, known as “braided
narrative,” animates the work of award-winning author Eula Biss.
Moved by Biss’s fresh and incisive analysis, the editors have
assembled some of the most creative voices in this dialogue, coming
together across the disciplines. Along with the editors, the
contributors are Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Nyla R. Branscombe,
Drucilla Cornell, Lewis R. Gordon, Paget Henry, Ernest-Marie
Mbonda, Peggy McIntosh, Mark McMorris, Marilyn Nissim-Sabat, Victor
Ray, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Louise Seamster, Tracie L. Stewart,
George Yancy, and Heidi A. Zetzer.
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