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Peniel E. Joseph on Darker than Blue: On the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Culture by Paul Gilroy and In the Shadow of Du Bois: Afro-Modern Political Thought in America by Robert Gooding-Williams
John Rockwell on Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992 by Tim Lawrence
Clay Risen on The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories by Edward Hollis
Joel Robbins on The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia by James C. Scott
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