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Make it Scream, Make it Burn

Leslie Jamison

From the author of The Empathy Exams comes a profound meditation on isolation, longing and the conflicts faced by all those who choose to tell true stories about the lives of others.

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by Elke Power

Leslie Jamison’s first essay collection, The Empathy Exams, made Readings’ Best of Nonfiction list in 2014. It is a book we still recommend and to which many of us still return. Jamison’s new essay collection, Make It Scream, Make It Burn, is destined for a similar fate.

Ordered within three sections – ‘Longing’, ‘Looking’, and ‘Dwelling’ – the …

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Review

Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music

Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume One, 1978-1987

Damascus

Olive, Again

The Anarchy

Find Me

The Weekend

Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

Dark Emu

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

There Was Still Love

The Weekend

Invented Lives

Damascus

Bruny

Here Until August: Stories

The Yield

This Taste for Silence

Lanny

The Friend

Where the Crawdads Sing

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

Fleishman Is in Trouble

Rules for Visiting

The Nickel Boys

The Man Who Saw Everything

Metropolis (Bernie Gunther Book 14)

Two Girls Down

This Poison Will Remain

The Wife and the Widow

Peace

Heaven, My Home

The Nancys

The Scholar

The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future

Three Women

See What You Made Me Do

Finding the Heart of the Nation: The Journey of the Uluru Statement towards Voice, Treaty and Truth

Year of the Monkey

Penny Wong: Passion and Principle

Guest House for Young Widows

Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

Body Tourists

Beyond the Sea

In Love with George Eliot

The Starless Sea

Olive, Again

Chances Are

Bottle Grove

The Girl Who Reads on the Metro

Westwind: The classic lost thriller

True West

Peace

The Night Fire

The Guardians

Agent Running in the Field

Quantum

Dead Man Switch

Little Weirds

Serious Noticing: Selected Essays

The Saturday Portraits

Make it Scream, Make it Burn

Kill Bills!

In Living Memory

Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement

Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

Bob Hawke: The Complete Biography

Someone’s Wife

Between the Stops

Jacinda Ardern

The Lives of Lucian Freud: Youth 1922 - 1968

When All Is Said and Done

Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume One, 1978-1987

Your Own Kind of Girl

Ducks, Newburyport

Supper Club

The Glad Shout

The Testaments