Jungian psychoanalyst James Hillman posits that we are each accompanied by what he variously calls our “acorn,” “daimon,” or “angel”—that mystical being who both protects us and insists on driving us toward our soul’s calling.
On holiday in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman wakes up to find that an invisible wall has descended all around her.
“Empathy is an illusion at best, or simply—as is said in moments of deep reflection—bullshit!”
On May 6, 2052, a sex worker named Miss Kelley joined with her neighbors in Hunts Point to take over a produce market and distribute the food to those in need.
Good infrastructure is thankless. You only notice it when it fails.
“Women, of course, can not be sons of God.”
Following the threads from the witch hunts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to present-day gendered violence, Silvia Federici shows how—then as now—such oppression is not only a tool of capitalism but a critical component of it.
Like another book with the same name, James C. Scott’s Against the Grain argues that the “just so” story of humans’ progression from barbarians to civilized agriculturalists is not the success story we might have thought.
In the woods of Wisconsin, a young forester named Rand Brandt learns that he can grow any plant he imagines in minutes, merely by touching the dirt.
Kathryn Schulz posits a vision of wrongness as both the inevitable human condition and a generative source from which creativity, art, brilliance, risk-taking, and so much more arises.
Judy Wallach-Stevens is woken one night to a warning about pollutants in the nearby Chesapeake Bay. With her wife and newborn in tow, she heads out to see what’s up—and ends up making first contact with a group of friendly aliens.
“Silence is not simply what happens when we stop talking. It is more than a mere negative renunciation of language; it is more than simply a condition we can produce at will.”
In the middle of the last century, a research and development complex in California’s Simi Valley experienced multiple near-catastrophic accidents, leaking radiation and other toxins into the surrounding communities.
“Ragbone! Ragbone! Any rags! Pots for rags! Donkey stone!”
When the murderer of Taryn Cornick’s sister is himself murdered just days after his release from prison, detective Jacob Berger is certain she has something to do with it.
“Technoableism is a belief in the power of technology that considers the elimination of disability a good thing, something we should strive for.”
In the seconds after Fetter is born, his mother kills his shadow.
In the fourth and as yet final book of the Steerswoman series, Rowan and Bel return to Donner, where they last barely escaped an attack of dragons.
Rowan arrives in Alemath, at the steerswomen’s Annex, searching for information.
The second book in the extraordinary Steerswoman Series follows Rowan and her companion, Bel, as they venture into the outskirts: a dangerous, inhospitable land marked by few sources of food and panoply of monsters intent on killing the humans who dare to live there.