{"id":2268,"date":"2022-03-01T20:00:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T20:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/?p=2268"},"modified":"2022-03-01T20:00:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T20:00:34","slug":"march-2022-good-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/2022\/03\/01\/march-2022-good-to-read\/","title":{"rendered":"march 2022 \u2013 good to read"},"content":{"rendered":"
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To Paradise<\/h3>\t\t\t

Hanya Yanagaihara<\/strong>
\nTracing three touching narratives across these timelines, To Paradise tells the tale of multiple characters who find connection through the space of a townhouse in Washington Square Park, New York City. Those of you who consumed Yanagihara\u2019s most celebrated work will not be shocked to know that this book is interested in grief and suffering more than happiness and thrill. Yet, this is also a book full of magnificently painted scenes and profound connection \u2014 and despite all its painful turns, one that upholds an unshakable hope for the possibility of love.
\nDoubleday<\/em> | January 22<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Sweat. A History of Exercise<\/h3>\t\t\t

Bill Hayes<\/strong>
\nHippocrates, Plato, Galen, Susan B. Anthony, Jack LaLanne, and Jane Fonda, among many others, make appearances in Sweat, but chief among the historical figures is Girolamo Mercuriale, a Renaissance-era Italian physician who aimed singlehandedly to revive the ancient Greek “art of exercising” through his 1569 book De arte gymnastica. Though largely forgotten over the past five centuries, Mercuriale and his illustrated treatise were pioneering, and are brought back to life in the pages of Sweat. Hayes ties his own personal experience-and ours-to the cultural and scientific history of exercise, from ancient times to the present day, giving us a new way to understand its place in our lives in the 21st century.
\nBloomsbury<\/em> | January 22<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The Nineties: A Book<\/h3>\t\t\t

Chuck Klosterman<\/strong>
\nIn The Nineties, Chuck Klosterman makes a home in all of it: the film, the music, the sports, the TV, the politics, the changes regarding race and class and sexuality. In perhaps no other book ever written would a sentence like, \u00abThe video for ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ was not more consequential than the reunification of Germany.\u00bb make complete sense. Chuck Klosterman has written a multi-dimensional masterpiece, a work of synthesis so smart and delightful that future historians might well refer to this entire period as Klostermanian. It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. The 90s brought about a revolution in the human condition we’re still groping to understand.
\nPenguin<\/em> | February 22<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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You Don\u2019t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays<\/h3>\t\t\t

Zora Neal Hurston<\/strong>
\nSpanning more than thirty-five years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and articles by the legendary author of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston, showcases the evolution of her distinctive style as an author. You Don\u2019t Know Us Negroes is the quintessential gathering of provocative essays from one of the world\u2019s most celebrated writers. Spanning more than three decades and penned during the backdrop of the birth of the Harlem Renaissance, Montgomery bus boycott, desegregation of the military, and school integration, Hurston\u2019s writing articulates the beauty and authenticity of Black life as only she could. These pages reflect Hurston as the controversial figure she was \u2013 someone who stated that feminism is a mirage and that the integration of schools did not necessarily improve the education of Black students.
\nHQ<\/em> | March 22<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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In the Margins. On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing<\/h3>\t\t\t

Elena Ferrante<\/strong>
\nArguably Italy\u2019s most praised contemporary writer, Elena Ferrante \u2014 author of the adored Neapolitan Novels, The Lost Daughter, and The Lying Life of Adults \u2014 offers a rare glimpse into her life and writing process. Though the true identity of the author stills remains unknown, nosey fans can now learn more about Ferrante\u2019s influences and battles from the genius herself. She writes about her development as both a reader and a writer, her latest considerations on modern literature, and her appreciation for talents like Emily Dickinson, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Gertrude Stein. The most emotional passages deal with the intricate legacy of women writers, a topic that Elena Ferrante no doubt knows personally.
\nEuropa Editions<\/em> | March 22<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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