Social Critique


1984
Brave New World
Animal Farm
The Great Gatsby
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Handmaid's Tale
Fahrenheit 451
All About Love: New Visions
Pride and Prejudice
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
Tender Is the Flesh
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
A Clockwork Orange
Yellowface
Myriam Gurba
Embedded within these systems of family, friendship, and community, these creepy men may appear harmless, their evil obscured by a benign collective presence, a fog of sorts. This softness swaddles and protect them. This fog abets.
Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions

Lokesh Tuli
We have diluted the language of suffering until it means absolutely nothing. And the terrifying truth is this: if everything is fucking trauma, then nothing is trauma.
Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

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