Girl with Hyacinths (1950), dir. Hasse Ekman

Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living

Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living

Susan Sontag, The artist as exemplary sufferer, quoting the Italian novelist, Cesare Pavese (taken from her book, Against Interpretation and Other Essays)

Susan Sontag, On Style (taken from her book, Against Interpretation and Other Essays)

Hari Alluri, from “Ancestral Memory”, After Kwame Dawes 

btw most universities to my knowledge keep their reading lists behind access barriers (ie. only students enrolled at the institution on the course in question can see them) so i thought i’d just let you all know that durham university has all of its reading lists available online for free without needing student access. do with this information what you will.

Vincent Van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Warsan Shire, from “Midnight in the Foreign Food Aisle”, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho, Sappho

Brené Brown, Daring Greatly

Jenny Slate, An Interview with Jenny Slate

Dipping a toe then another and another until submerging your whole body into the unchartered waters of yourself after years of living in suspension

From Oxygen, by Mary Oliver

Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem

Outbound by HIEU MINH NGUYEN

Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.