STAFF PICK: Story of the Eye

 


Story of the Eye
Georges Bataille

So perverse and well-written, you can’t help but read it in one quick and gasping session. Praised by both Jean-Paul Sartre and Susan Sontag, it will leave you–as I’m sure it did them–shaking and wet.




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STAFF PICK: The History of Sexuality

The History of Sexuality
Michel Foucault

A *classic* by our beloved Michel Foucault. Don’t get the wrong idea: this is not a book chronicling how people have had sex throughout the ages. No, this erudite text (published in France under the title ‘The Will to Knowledge’), asks the question of why it’s so important for us (“post-victorians”) to know sex. This book thoroughly undoes how mainstream (and not so mainstream) culture thinks and talks about sex and sexuality.

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STAFF PICK: Crazy Like Us

Crazy Like Us
Ethan Watters

Ethan Watters brings us four journalistic vignettes: anorexia in China; PTSD in Sir Lanka; schizophrenia in Zanzibar; and depression in Japan. Through each of these stories he shows us the effects and problematics of using U.S. concepts of mental illness to diagnose and treat others. A fine read for anyone interested in mental health, globalization, or solid investigative reporting in general.

 

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