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The Burning House:
Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America
by Anders Walker
Yale University Press
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The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America by Anders Walker
By Elias Rodriques
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In 1977, the school district of Kansas City, Missouri, sued the state of Missouri for supporting segregation. Kansas City students were largely black; suburban schools educated significantly whiter populations. The government’s districting policies, the suit alleged, produced de facto segregation.

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Goddess of Anarchy:
The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical
by Jacqueline Jones
Basic Books
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Goddess of Anarchy by Jacqueline Jones
By Justin Slaughter
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More than a century before Antifa or Occupy Wall Street, thousands showed up to hear lectures on wealth inequality and its discontents from Lucy Parsons, the subject of Jacqueline Jones engrossing new biography, Goddess of Anarchy. A former slave, Parsons transformed herself from a rural seamstress

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Rachel Carson:
Silent Spring & Other Writings on the Environment (Library of America)
by Rachel Carson
Library of America
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Silent Spring & Other Writings on the Environment by Rachel Carson
By Daegan Miller
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If you were to saunter through the spruce-scented church of American environmentalism, looking upon the portraits of its saints, you’d first see John Muir, father of the Sierra Club, defender of the Yosemite, a green Abraham with a mossy old-man’s beard. Next to him, his camping companion, Teddy

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Empty Set
by Verónica Gerber Bicecci
translation by Christina MacSweeney
Coffee House Press
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Empty Set by Verónica Gerber Bicecci
By Andrew Schenker
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In Verónica Gerber Bicecci’s novel Empty Set, the book’s narrator, an authorial stand-in also named Verónica, is haunted by her mother’s disappearance back when she was fifteen. In the book’s slightly fantastical world, this disappearance is gradual, ghostly: One day, Verónica and her brother noticed

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Ultraluminous:
A Novel
by Katherine Faw
MCD
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Ultraluminous by Katherine Faw
By Jordan Larson
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A woman with a set of fake names—Kata, Katya, Kasia, Katushka—has returned to New York after eighteen years in Dubai. Glass towers now crowd the Williamsburg waterfront and women yell at her to get out of the bike lane. Bodega cigarettes cost fourteen dollars and smoking in bars is against the law.

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The Years
by Annie Ernaux
translation by Alison L. Strayer
Seven Stories Press
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The Years by Annie Ernaux
By Gili Ostfield
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“I have always wanted to write the sort of book that I find it impossible to talk about afterward, the sort of book that makes it impossible for me to withstand the gaze of others,” writes Annie Ernaux’s narrator near the end of her 1998 autofiction, Shame. Ernaux takes the sentiment further in the

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The Kingdom:
A Novel
by Emmanuel Carrère
translation by John Lambert
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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The Kingdom by Emmanuel Carrère
By Michael Sonnenschein
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"The Kingdom" is a weird, brilliant hybrid of biblical interpretation, memoir, and historical fiction in which the author speculates about the personalities of the earliest Christians. The book is brash in its structure, tone, and some of its claims. But Carrère isn’t doing anything that Christians haven't been doing for two millennia. He’s just doing it an in a wildly contemporary, self-conscious way.

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Her Body and Other Parties:
Stories
by Carmen Maria Machado
Graywolf Press
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Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
By Rebecca Stoner
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In the month since I began writing this review, allegations of sexual harassment by powerful men in the restaurant and entertainment industries, the art world, and the highest reaches of politics have become ubiquitous. A list of “shitty media men” circulated as a shared Google spreadsheet, sparking

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Once Upon a Time in Shaolin:
The Untold Story of the Wu-Tang Clan's Million-Dollar Secret Album, the Devaluation of Music, and America's New Public Enemy No. 1
by Cyrus Bozorgmehr
Flatiron Books
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Once Upon a Time in Shaolin by Cyrus Bozorgmehr
By Chris Ruen
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In 2014, the Wu-Tang Clan shocked the music world by deciding to sell only one copy of their new album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. Wu-Tang would “tour” the physical album to select venues, and then sell it to the highest bidder. Most fans would never hear the album. This was the group’s way of

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Lower Ed:
The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy
by Tressie McMillan Cottom
The New Press
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Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy by Tressie McMillan Cottom
By Richard A. Greenwald
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There was a time, not too long ago, when we saw college education as both an individual attainment and a societal good: We talked in lofty terms about “citizenship” and “democracy.” Not anymore. “A college education,” writes Tressie McMillan Cottom in her new book, Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of

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Web Exclusive

The Burning House:

Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America

by Anders Walker

Yale University Press

$30.00 List Price

For more info visit:Amazon • IndieBound • Barnes & Noble

By Elias Rodriques

Goddess of Anarchy:

The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical

by Jacqueline Jones

Basic Books

$32.00 List Price

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By Justin Slaughter

Rachel Carson:

Silent Spring & Other Writings on the Environment (Library of America)

by Rachel Carson

Library of America

$35.00 List Price

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By Daegan Miller

Empty Set

by Verónica Gerber Bicecci

translation by Christina MacSweeney

Coffee House Press

$16.95 List Price

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By Andrew Schenker

Ultraluminous:

A Novel

by Katherine Faw

MCD

$25.00 List Price

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By Jordan Larson

The Years

by Annie Ernaux

translation by Alison L. Strayer

Seven Stories Press

$19.95 List Price

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By Gili Ostfield

The Kingdom:

A Novel

by Emmanuel Carrère

translation by John Lambert

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

$28.00 List Price

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By Michael Sonnenschein

Her Body and Other Parties:

Stories

by Carmen Maria Machado

Graywolf Press

$16.00 List Price

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By Rebecca Stoner

Once Upon a Time in Shaolin:

The Untold Story of the Wu-Tang Clan's Million-Dollar Secret Album, the Devaluation of Music, and America's New Public Enemy No. 1

by Cyrus Bozorgmehr

Flatiron Books

$26.99 List Price

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By Chris Ruen

Lower Ed:

The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy

by Tressie McMillan Cottom

The New Press

$26.95 List Price

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By Richard A. Greenwald

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