In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Anna Badkhen’s essay collection To See Beyond profoundly observes and relates stories of survivors and hope in these dark times. Publishers Weekly wrote of the book: “Soul-stirring. . . . A quietly moving tribute to survivors of global upheaval.” In her own words, here is Anna Badkhen’s Book Notes music playlist for her essay collection To See Beyond: To See Beyond came together at the time of genocide and the rise of fascism, and it is a book of radical reimagining: a collection of essays that probe the ways we ward off despair and imagine the vocabulary we need for survival. In our hyper-informed digital era of patriarchal panic, climate catastrophe, and historically unmatched migration that…
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