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Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
5.0

Every essay in this collection is so deeply, deeply good, accessible and brilliant at the same time. "In the Name of Beauty" might be the best essay in the collection, but every other essay is a deeply close second. She's just able to do so much in such little space (the collection itself is barely over 200 pages, the font in the copy I read was frankly pretty huge, and each essay flew by.) She also is able to explain how she does it, in the titular essay, and why the form is so important. Just every part of it is so deeply thought and also so well explained and explored. An incredible collection, and one you should definitely get your hands on if you're able.