{"product_id":"how-to-read-now-1","title":"How to Read Now","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eI cannot say enough about How to Read Now... Check it out' Roxane Gay\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA red-hot grenade... One of my favourite books of the year' Jia Tolentino\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Energetically brilliant, warmly humane, incisively funny' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Sean Greer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I gasped, shouted, and holler-laughed . . . Phenomenal' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eR.O. Kwon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ewake-up call. A broadside. A rich and brilliant war cry' Chris Power\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow many times have we heard that reading builds empathy? That we can travel through books? How often have we were heard about the importance of diversifying our bookshelves? Or claimed that books saved our lives? These familiar words - beautiful, aspirational - are sometimes even true. But award-winning novelist Elaine Castillo has more ambitious hopes for our reading culture, and in this collection of linked essays, she moves to wrest reading away from the aspirations of uniting people in empathetic harmony and reposition it as thornier, ultimately more rewarding work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHow to Read Now \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of something better: a more engaged relationship not just with our fiction and our art, but with our buried and entangled histories. Smart, funny, galvanizing, and sometimes profane, Castillo attacks the stale questions and less-than-critical proclamations that masquerade as vital discussion: reimagining the cartography of the classics, building a moral case against the settler colonialism of lauded writers like Joan Didion, taking aim at Nobel Prize winners and toppling indie filmmakers, and celebrating glorious moments in everything from popular TV like \u003ci\u003eThe Watchmen \u003c\/i\u003eto the films of Wong Kar-wai and the work of contemporary poets like Tommy Pico.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e At once a deeply personal and searching history of one woman's reading life, and a wide-ranging and urgent intervention into our globalized conversations about why reading matters today, \u003ci\u003eHow to Read Now \u003c\/i\u003eempowers us to embrace a more complicated, embodied form of reading, inviting us to acknowledge complicated truths, ignite surprising connections, imagine a more daring solidarity, and create space for a riskier intimacy - within ourselves, and with each other.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54219230413144,"sku":"9781838954956","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781838954956.jpg?v=1778642129","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/how-to-read-now-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}