Steven Ray wants to read Imagined communities by Benedict Anderson
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism is a book by Benedict …
Seems like a fascinating topic, and very relevant for our times.
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I’m interested in a multitude of things, including social justice, socialism, history, poetry, magical realism (fiction), capitalism, race and class struggle, plus stuff like wine, baseball and music.
So mostly non-fiction, though I read maybe two novels per year and maybe one poetry collection.
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Steven Ray wants to read All That Is Solid Melts Into Air by Marshall Berman
Steven Ray wants to read The Will to Change by bell hooks
The Will to Change by bell hooks
Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look …
Steven Ray wants to read Unmasking Autism by Devon Price
A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, …
Seems like an important read on my journey of self-discovery.
Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century Vol 2 THE WHEELS of COMMERCE by Fernand Braudel
The subject of The Wheels of Commerce is the development of mechanisms of exchange—shops, markets, trade networks, and banking—in the …
Steven Ray wants to read Critique of Everyday Life by Henri Lefebvre
The three-volume text by Henri Lefebvre is perhaps the richest, most prescient work about modern …
Heck yes. Right up my alley.
Steven Ray wants to read The Automatic Fetish by Beverley Best
Steven Ray started reading Feminist Theory by bell hooks
Feminist Theory by bell hooks
A sweeping examination of the core issues of sexual politics, bell hooks' new book Feminist Theory: from margin to center …
Steven Ray reviewed I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita
Tenth Anniversary Edition, with an introduction by Jessica Hagedorn
Really entertaining and informative
5 stars
A 600+ page tour de force of historical fiction. A real education on the lives of immigrants from all over Asia and beyond during the tumultuous period of 1968-1977. Each year features a new cast, but they all revolve around the I Hotel in SF’s Chinatown. Wisened old timers mix with idealistic and determined twenty somethings, on a quest to protect what’s theirs in a land where the cards are stacked against them. Really engaging. An important read.
Steven Ray rated I Hotel: 5 stars
I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita
Tenth Anniversary Edition, with an introduction by Jessica Hagedorn
Steven Ray finished reading I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita
I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita
Tenth Anniversary Edition, with an introduction by Jessica Hagedorn
Steven Ray wants to read What Is to Be Done? by Lenin
Steven Ray finished reading Things that Can and Cannot Be Said by Arundhati Roy
A quick, short read. Mostly transcripts of conversations, plus a few short essays. The conversation with Dan Ellsberg and Ed Snowdon was pretty riveting. Thumbs up.
Steven Ray started reading Things that Can and Cannot Be Said by Arundhati Roy
Essays and conversations in which Roy and Cusack reflect on their meeting with Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden in 2014.