Hold Everything Dear by John Berger

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  "I write in the night, but I see not only the tyranny. If that were so, I would probably not have the courage to continue writing. I ...

How We Got Here by David Shields

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  "What is the "purpose" of our brief stay on earth—simply to experience the widest range of feelings ?"

Ultramarine by Mariette Navarro

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  "She could say of all the people she's met in life what they are and what awaits them: wandering or anchoring down, home or perpe...

A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr

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  "And this steady rhythm of living and working got into me, so that I felt part of it and had my place, a foot in both present and pas...

Authority by Andrea Long Chu

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  "The primary function of gender identity as a political concept—and, increasingly, a legal one—is to bracket, if not to totally deny,...

Audition by Katie Kitamura

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  "In this full light, I saw that my first impression had been correct, he was handsome, perhaps even excessively so—his face would bre...

The Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer's Families and the Search for a Cure by Jennie Erin Smith

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  "The simplest explanation, he said, was that Colombia, during the Spanish Conquest, saw a cornucopia of rare mutations from African, ...

Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood

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  "If you don't live the life you are born for, it makes you ill. That's what Helen Parry told us this morning, dispensing wisd...

Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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  "People did not easily believe that you longed for the unusual ."

Soft Core by Brittany Newell

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  "My favorite dancer was a girl named Harmony. She liked to bake and brought us gluten-free treats in Tupperware containers. Harmony w...