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Parapraxis magazine deals in thought-provoking, radical ideas. Investigating social, political, gender and racial issues through a psychoanalytic lens, the new publication from education non-profit The Psychosocial Foundation is unafraid and unconstrained in …
The first well-documented account of the benefits of psychedelics, Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences by William Richards traces three decades of research to explain how hallucinatory drugs, when used correctly, can …
Writer, historian and activist Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me captures the gender dynamics that haunt conversations between men and women. With acuity and humor, Solnit delves into mansplaining, why it occurs …
Franny Choi explores queerness, femininity, identity and autonomy as an Asian American woman in Soft Science, a book of poems that often center on futurism and technology in a remarkably human manner. While …
Aamina Ahmad pays exacting attention to her characters’ psychological nuances in her debut novel, The Return of Faraz Ali. The neo-noir novel tells the tale of a Faraz Ali who was taken …
Jenny Tinghui Zhang’s debut novel Four Treasures of the Sky is a surreal epic underpinned by Chinese folklore and American history. It follows the journey of heroine Daiyu who is kidnapped and …
Emily St John Mandel’s sixth novel Sea of Tranquility playfully and indulgently bends time travel, metaphysics and grief. The science fiction novel juggles an ambitious amount: a young man in 1912 exiled to the …
Perfect pairings for a summer day in the sunshine
Featured in writer-director Mike Mills’ endearing cinematic masterpiece C’mon C’mon, the out-of-print children’s book Star Child returns to shelves thanks to independent media organization A24 (who also distributed the film). Written and …
An english-language exploration of the South American city's cultural charms