Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Sehnsucht, desire, loss, lust, obsession, queerness, family, home... as summer rolls on in the northern hemisphere, let's dig into various facets of longing

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books:
Vilette by Charlotte Brontë (1853)
Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb (trans. Len Rix) (1937)
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin (1956)
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood (1964)
Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid (1990)
The Seas by Samantha Hunt (2004)
Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval (trans. Marjam Idriss) (2009)
Liminal by Jordan Tannahill (2018)
Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth (trans. Charlotte Barslund) (2020)
If Only by Vigdis Hjorth (trans. Charlotte Barslund) (2016)
Boulder by Eva Baltasar (trans. Julia Sanchez) (2020)
Lote by Shola von Reinhold (2020)
Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan (2021)
A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt (2022)

Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson (1986)
Passion simple by Annie Ernaux (1992)
Bluets by Maggie Nelson (2009)
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon (2018)
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess by Becca Rothfeld (2024)

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