2020s

Showing 9 works across all media from the 2020s

Imagine we are linked not ranked.

Gloria Steinem

2021

★ 7.1

The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self. The ultimate touchstone is witness: the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.

David Whyte

2020

★ 5.0

Nonfiction

The Philosophy of Modern Song

Bob Dylan

2022 · 352 pages

Sixty-six songs, from Sinatra to the Who, each taken twice: Dylan writes his way inside the record in second person, then steps back and talks craft. Nobody listens to music this closely.

★ 4.9

Fiction

Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth

A Novel

Wole Soyinka

2021 · 512 pages

Nigeria's political and religious elite trade in body parts stolen from a hospital, a business one surgeon uncovers. Soyinka returned to the novel after nearly fifty years to write this unforgiving satire.

★ 4.8

Press conference

One day, it's like a miracle, it will disappear.

Donald Trump

2020

★ 4.5

When somebody's the president of the United States, the authority is total.

Donald Trump

2020

★ 4.5

Nonfiction

There and Back

Photographs from the Edge

Jimmy Chin

2021 · 320 pages

Chin skied from the summit of Everest and hung off El Capitan to film Alex Honnold climbing it without a rope. His photographs come with what it cost to stand there.

★ 4.2

I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning.

Donald Trump

2020

★ 3.6

Autobiography and memoir

My life has been a quest for knowledge and understanding, and I am nowhere near having achieved that. And it doesn’t bother me in the least.

Alex Trebek

2020

★ 1.9