Summer Books round up 1

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:46:57 +0000

The last couple of weeks, which ideally I should have spent working on academic writing, I have instead been reading books that have nothing to do with anything. I read Eula Biss’ Having and Being Had (sorry to my friend whose book I stole) and then Rachel Cusk’s Outline and Annie Ernaux’ s Exteriors, and oh! Famesick by Lena Dunham and Strangers by Belle Burden. All books written memoir essay style, by rich white women I presumably have nothing in common with. Yet I read these books, honest tirades of their lives, a retelling of their narratives, a deep dive into the female psyche with rapt attention.