Animal SpiralMiddle aged streamer twins in Bayamn, Puerto Rico, are the first human beings to successfully connectsharing their consciousness across 34 translucent cables. In that moment, the Animal is born, an intracerebral force that quickly grows to encompass anthills of synaptically entwined bodies, a floating library kitchen redolent of rice and beans far above the Mississippi river, and a transhuman compound in a future Cuba on the Isle of Youth. Circling

but are rarely mentioned in histories of the subject

The Death and Life of Gentrification sheds critical light on the changing meaning of gentrification in contemporary life

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combative writings on subjects ranging from slavery to the imagination

a wickedly funny take on old English rhetoric and American self-appraisals

The Oprah Magazine described the beloved Italian novelist Elena Ferrante as “an oracle among authors

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Philosophically and formally adventurous

The novel implies that change can only begin when the eyes of society have finally been opened