How to Read Now

By Elaine Castillo,

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'I cannot say enough about How to Read Now... Check it out' Roxane Gay
'A red-hot grenade... One of my favourite books of the year' Jia Tolentino
'Energetically brilliant, warmly humane, incisively funny' Andrew Sean Greer
'I gasped, shouted, and holler-laughed . . . Phenomenal' R.O. Kwon
'A wake-up call.…

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1 author picked How to Read Now as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

The conversations I have most often with my friends revolve around books—the intersection between books and society, books and politics, books and change. But these conversations have generally been meandering and, to be honest, often only half-articulated, interrupted by gossip or the need for a tea top-up. So when I picked up Elaine Castillo’s book, it felt like I was suddenly being given the insightful, intelligent, fully-formed version of a topic I’d always been drawn to but never quite managed to excavate properly.

Like the other recommendations on this list, it’s both personal—Castillo talks about her own relationship to…

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