by Jenny Offill
Recommended by Meghan Markle and Celeste Ng
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Fiction.
Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all. Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply "the wife," once exchanged love letters with her husband postmarked Dept. of Speculation,...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Fiction.
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Meghan Markle
“What are your favorite books (esp. novels) composed of small fragments Ex: BLUETS by Maggie Nelson DEPT OF SPECULATION by Jenny Offill 300 ARGUMENTS by Sarah Manguso ONE HUNDRED APOCALYPSES &etc. by Lucy Corin MADELEINE IS SLEEPING by Sarah ShunLien Bynum What else”
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 13 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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