The Split and the Structure: Twenty-Eight Essays by Rudolf ArnheimRequirements: .ePUB reader, 6 mbOverview: Rudolf Arnheim’s great forte is his ability to illuminate the perceptual processes that go into the making and reception of artworks—painting, sculpture, architecture, and film. Over the years, his pioneering mode of "reading" art from a unique scientific/philosophic perspective has garnered […]
Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders by Vanessa Angélica VillarrealRequirements: .ePUB reader, 13.9 MbOverview: A brilliant, singular collection of essays that looks to music, fantasy, and pop culture—from Beyoncé to Game of Thrones—to excavate and reimagine what has been disappeared by migration and colonialism. Upon becoming a new mother, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal was […]
Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent by Kathryn Van Beek, Alie Benge, Lil O’Brien Requirements: .ePUB reader, 1.7 MbOverview: In New Zealand the number of people who will never have children is growing — and they’ re pushing back against the narrative that if they don’ t, their lives will be somehow ‘ […]
Say You Mean It by Megan Reinking Requirements: .ePUB reader, 1.6 mbOverview: The last thing city girl Blair Williams wants to do is travel to a remote island on a lake near the Minnesotan/Canadian border for her law firm’s company-wide retreat. Having long struggled with high-functioning depression and low self-esteem, she attempts to fake her […]
Made Glorious by Lindsay Eagar Narrated by Morgan Dalla BettaRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 251.8 MB 10 hrs and 15 minsOverview: Rory is an antihero for the ages. Like Shakespeare’s Richard III, she confides in her audience, telling us exactly the lengths she’ll go to to secure the leading role in Bosworth Academy’s senior musical, confessing without […]