calamity's child

texts i adore
skin: talking about sex, class, and literature - dorothy allison
what the living do - marie howe
twigs and knucklebones - sarah lindsay
jonah
directed by desire - june jordan
grief lessons - anne carson
autobiography of red - anne carson
bloodchild - octavia butler
fragile things - neil gaiman
the man who fell in love with the moon - tom spanbauer
alone in the kitchen with an eggplant: confessions of cooking for one and dining alone – jenni ferrari-adler

in current rotation
entering jewish prayer - reuven hammer
messilat yesharim - moses chaim luzzato, translated by mordechai kaplan, translated and commentary by ira stone
eat, memory: great writers at table - amanda hesser
moral grandeur and spiritual audacity - abraham joshua heschel
pesach for everyone - marge piercy

in the queue
journal of an ordinary grief - mahmoud darwish
the poetry of arab women - nathalie handal
born palestinian, born black - suheir hammad
what is found there - adrienne rich
the life of poetry - muriel rukeyser
some of us did not die - june jordan
wanting in arabic - trish salah
the other israel: voices of refusal and dissent - roane carey
judaism does not equal israel: the rebirth of the jewish prophetic - marc ellis
the invention of the jewish people - shlomo sand
if i am not for myself: the journey of an anti-zionist jew - mike marquesee
torah queeries: weekly commentaries on the hebrew bible - joshua lesser
keep your wives away from them: orthodox women, unorthodox desires - miryam kabakov
practicing exile - marc ellis
radical judaism: rethinking god and tradition - arthur green
the peace and violence of judaism: from the bible to modern zionism - robert eisen
a responsible life: the spiritual path of mussar - ira stone
the ethnic cleansing of palestine - ilan pappe
beyond chutzpah: on the misuse of anti-semitism and the abuse of history - norman finkelstein

useful books for jewish learning
choosing a jewish life - anita diamant
a book of life: embracing judaism as a spiritual practice - michael strassfeld
the jewish catalog, vols 1-3 - michael strassfeld and sharon strassfeld
jewish literacy - joseph telushkin
the first hebrew primer: the adult’s beginner path to biblical hebrew - ethelyn simon, et al