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Karmic Winds: Reflections from “The Smartest Guy in Hollywood” with Peter M. Hoffman (Rare Bird Books, 2026)
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Oct 29, 2026 |
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How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington with Marcia Chatelain (Random House, 2026)
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Oct 29, 2026 |
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Last Day: How to Stop Losing Our Loved Ones to the Opioid Crisis with Stephanie Wittels Wachs (Gallery/Lemonada Books, 2026)
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Oct 29, 2026 |
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Chekhov's Sakhalin Journey: Doctor, Humanitarian, Writer with Jonathan Cole (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Oct 27, 2026 |
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Rehearsing the Future: The Thought and Practice of James and Grace Lee Boggs with Michael Doan (AK Press, 2026)
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Oct 27, 2026 |
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The Expanded Editions of Elie Wiesel with Rabbi Irving "Yitz" Greenberg and Ariel Burger
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Oct 26, 2026 |
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A Protestant Air: Gide, Sartre, Barthes, and the Religion of Literary Modernity with Clémentine Fauré-Bellaïche (Cornell UP, 2026)
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Oct 25, 2026 |
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Safar: Finding Home, History, and Culture through Punjabi Food in the American West with Madhushree Ghosh (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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Oct 24, 2026 |
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Pink Auteur, Red Outlaw: Adachi Masao and Japan's Cinema of Revolution with William Andrews (Awai Books, 2026)
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Oct 24, 2026 |
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Outed: LBJ’s Confidant and the Arrest that Transformed a Presidency with Timothy Stewart-Winter (U Chicago Press, 2026)
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Oct 23, 2026 |
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Justice Was Her Calling: The Fierce and Fascinating Life of Dorothy Kenyon with Jennifer L. Brinkley (U California Press, 2026)
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Oct 22, 2026 |
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Water, Carbon, Time: Exploring Peatlands in a Warming World with Jennifer de Mooy (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
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Oct 19, 2026 |
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An Inconvenient Woman: The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith, the Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America with Keri Leigh Merritt (St. Martin's Press, 2026)
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Oct 17, 2026 |
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Presidentess: The Life of First Lady Julia Gardner Tyler with Christopher J. Leahy and Sharon Williams Leahy (UP of Kansas, 2026)
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Oct 16, 2026 |
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The Lost Founder: James Wilson and the Forgotten Fight for a People's Constitution with Jesse Wegman (Celadon Books, 2026)
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Oct 15, 2026 |
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Walking with Beth: Conversations with My 100-Year-Old Friend with Merilyn Simonds (Random House Canada, 2025)
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Oct 14, 2026 |
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Inquisition for Blood: The Making of a Black Female Serial Killer in the Jim Crow South with Lauren Nicole Henley (LSU Press, 2026)
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Oct 13, 2026 |
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A Room of His Own: Joseph Brodsky and the Making of a Bilingual Poet with Daria S. Smirnova (Academic Studies Press, 2025)
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Oct 09, 2026 |
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Flannery and Regina: The Andalusia Chronicles with Carol Loeb Shloss
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Oct 06, 2026 |
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The Afterlife of a Fascist Murder: Giacomo Matteotti in Myth and Memory, 1924-2024 with Amy King (Cambridge UP, 2026)
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Oct 05, 2026 |
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Our Common Life: Folksong from the Front Porch to the Concert Hall with Stephen Wade
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Oct 04, 2026 |
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Bernardo de Gálvez: Spanish Hero of the American Revolution with Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia (UNC Press, 2026)
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Oct 04, 2026 |
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night with Julian Sancton
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Oct 01, 2026 |
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Cool Heat: Anita O'Day and Her Dangerous Jazz Life with James Gavin (Equinox, 2026)
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Oct 01, 2026 |
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The Last of the Ellis Island Jews: A Brooklyn Memoir with Joel Dinerstein (SUNY Press, 2026)
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Sep 29, 2026 |
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How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington with Marcia Chatelain
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Sep 29, 2026 |
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Thomas Jefferson Survives: American Independence in His Time and Ours with Peter S. Onuf and Francis D. Cogliano (Liveright, 2026)
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Sep 28, 2026 |
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What Is Life Worth? New Edition with Reflections 25 Years After 9/11 with Kenneth R. Feinberg (Rivertowns, 2026)
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Sep 25, 2026 |
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Emmy Waldman, "Filial Lines: Art Spiegelman, Alison Bechdel, and Comics Form" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
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Sep 25, 2026 |
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Tess Chakkalakal, "A Matter of Complexion: The Life and Fictions of Charles W. Chesnutt" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
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Sep 23, 2026 |
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Ru Marshall, "American Trickster: The Hidden Lives of Carlos Castaneda" (OR Books, 2026)
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Sep 23, 2026 |
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Randal Maurice Jelks, "My America: Langston Hughes on Democracy" (Broadleaf Books, 2026)
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Sep 22, 2026 |
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Michael R. Fischbach, "I Did It for My Country: Sirhan Sirhan, Palestine, and the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy" (Columbia UP, 2026)
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Sep 22, 2026 |
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Andrew Brandt, "Smarter about Sports: My Life Navigating Athletes, Agents, Media, and the Business of the NFL" (Triumph Books, 2026)
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Sep 21, 2026 |
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Sarah Trad, "A House in the Lebanese Mountains: Recipes & Stories from Beit Trad" (Thames & Hudson, 2026)
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Sep 18, 2026 |
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Jerome Sauvage, "Witness to North Korea: Three Years on the Ground in the DPRK" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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Sep 18, 2026 |
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Charlie Walker, "On Thin Ice: An Explorer's Memoir of Siberia, Surveillance and Survival" (Duckworth, 2026)
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Sep 10, 2026 |
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Ian Brown, "70: A Diary of My Seventy-First Year" (Penguin Random House, 2026)
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Sep 10, 2026 |
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Ben Westhoff ed.,"Lives Interrupted: The Fentanyl Tragedy" (Arsenault Family Foundation, 2026)
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Sep 09, 2026 |
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Sara McDougall, "Justice for Jehanne: The Tale of a Medieval Survivor" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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Sep 07, 2026 |
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Kirby, "Fairy" (Palimpsest Press, 2026)
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Sep 06, 2026 |
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Ashley Kahn, "Days of Miracle and Wonder: Paul Simon and the Trials and Triumphs of Graceland" (Atria Books, 2026)
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Sep 05, 2026 |
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Leah Kim, "Mom, Unfiltered: Maternal Mental Health and Finding Freedom Through Motherhood (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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Sep 05, 2026 |
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Filmmaker Peter Santenello on Your Fellow Americans: Dispatches from Across the Country We Call Home
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Sep 02, 2026 |
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David Keohan, "The Wind Beneath the Stone: My Quest to Unearth a Piece of Ireland's Folklore" (Bloomsbury and Chelsea Green, 2026)
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Sep 01, 2026 |
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Muy Lang Lim, "In the Shadow of the Khmer Rouge: A Child Survivor's Memoir" (NUS Press, 2026)
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Sep 01, 2026 |
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Brian Jay Jones, "George Lucas: A Life" (Little, Brown and Company, 2016)
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Aug 26, 2026 |
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Robyn Hitchcock, "Stranded in the Future" (Akashic Books, 2026)
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Aug 26, 2026 |
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Patricia A. Billingsley, "Lorca in Vermont: The Spanish Poet and His American Lover" (High Road Books, 2026)
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Aug 24, 2026 |
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Ed Park, "Three Tenses" (Random House, 2026)
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Aug 22, 2026 |
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Jane Draycott, "Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Aug 22, 2026 |
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Jessica Riskin, "The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck" (Penguin, 2026)
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Aug 22, 2026 |
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Andrew Fisher, "Nathan Straus: From Macy's Magnate to International Humanitarian" (Rutgers UP, 2026)
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Aug 21, 2026 |
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Emile Chabal, "The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian" (Harvard UP, 2026)
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Aug 21, 2026 |
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Happy to Help: Adventures of a People Pleaser
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Aug 20, 2026 |
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Sandip Roy, "Chapal Rani, the Last Queen of Bengal" (Seagull Books, 2026)
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Aug 20, 2026 |
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Scott Peeples, "How Many Roads: A Life of Bob Dylan" (Reaktion, 2026)
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Aug 17, 2026 |
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Edward E. Andrews, "Newport Gardner's Anthem: A Story of Slavery, Struggle, and Survival in Early America" (Cornell UP, 2025)
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Aug 17, 2026 |
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Echoes of Incense on the Shikoku Pilgrimage with Don Weiss
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Aug 16, 2026 |
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Shimon Redlich, "Bridge Builder: My Life Since the Holocaust" (Academic Studies Press, 2026)
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Aug 16, 2026 |
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Caroline Bicks, "Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King" (Hogarth, 2026)
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Aug 14, 2026 |
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Paul French, "The Last Emperor of China: Twilight of the Forbidden City" (St. Martin's Press, 2026)
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Aug 13, 2026 |
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Why the Roman Empire Fell: On Edward Gibbon with Hugh Liebert
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Aug 13, 2026 |
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Bridget Hourican on Frank Callanan's "James Joyce: A Political Life" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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Aug 12, 2026 |
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Sima Qian–China’s Grand Historian
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Aug 12, 2026 |
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Emma Parker, "Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Aug 07, 2026 |
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Chasing Freedom: Coming of Age at the End of Empire with Simukai Chigudu
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Aug 05, 2026 |
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Matthew Pinsker, "Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln" (Norton, 2026)
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Aug 05, 2026 |
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Jonathan Cheng, "Korean Messiah: Kim Il Sung and the Christian Roots of North Korea’s Personality Cult" (Knopf, 2026)
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Aug 04, 2026 |
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Abdelwahab Meddeb, "Returns to Marrakesh / Retour à Marrakech" (Syracuse UP, 2026)
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Aug 01, 2026 |
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The Letters of Emily Dickinson
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Jul 30, 2026 |
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Elisabeth van Houts, "Empress Matilda: Queen of the Romans, Ruler of the English" (Yale UP, 2026)
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Jul 25, 2026 |
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David Denby, "Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer" (Henry Holt, 2025)
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Jul 22, 2026 |
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Sarah Kaminsky, "The Forger of Paris" (Doppelhouse Press, 2025)
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Jul 15, 2026 |
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Gayle F. Wald, "This Is Rhythm: Ella Jenkins, Children’s Music, and the Long Civil Rights Movement" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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Jul 15, 2026 |
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Heidegger in Ruins
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Jul 13, 2026 |
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Rachel Phan, "Restaurant Kid: A Memoir of Family and Belonging" (Douglas & McIntyre, 2025)
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Jul 11, 2026 |
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Brad Tolinski and Chris Gill, "Blow by Blow: The Jeff Beck Story" (Da Capo, 2026)
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Jul 09, 2026 |
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Ted Powell, "Churchill and the Crown" (Oxford UP, 2026)
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Jul 06, 2026 |
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Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory
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Jul 02, 2026 |
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Rosa Campbell, "The Book That Taught the World to Orgasm and Then Disappeared: Shere Hite and the Hite Report" (Melville House, 2026)
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Jul 02, 2026 |
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Thomas Paine at the Semiquincentennial: A Conversation with Gregory Claeys
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Jul 01, 2026 |
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Andrew Wilson, "I Wanna Be Loved By You: Marilyn Monroe: A Life in 100 Takes" (Grand Central Publishing, 2026)
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Jun 29, 2026 |
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Christopher de Bellaigue, "The Golden Throne: The Curse of a King" (Bodley Head, 2025)
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Jun 29, 2026 |
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Fred S. Naiden, "Railroaded: A Motorman’s Story of the New York City Subway" (Rutgers UP, 2026)
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Jun 28, 2026 |
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Thomas S. Mullaney, "How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information" (W. W. Norton, 2026)
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Jun 28, 2026 |
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Philip Norman, "Mr. Moonlight: Brian Epstein and the Making of the Beatles" (Da Capo Press, 2026)
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Jun 26, 2026 |
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Xiaobing Li, "China’s Mahan: Admiral Liu Huaqing and the Rise of the Modern Chinese Navy (Naval Institute Press, 2026)
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Jun 25, 2026 |
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Where Harlem Rests at the Woodlawn Cemetery
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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Samantha Ellis, "Always Carry Salt: A Memoir of Preserving Language and Culture" (Pegasus Books, 2026)
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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Emily Doucet, "Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts" (Duke UP, 2026)
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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Colin Flahive, "The Galaxy's Last Ride: Shifting Gears in Rural China" (Earnshaw Books, 2026)
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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Ida Kinalska-Pietruska and Isabella Skrypczak, "A Polish Girl in Siberia: Surviving and Transcending Exile" (Disruption Books, 2026)
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Jun 14, 2026 |
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The Legacy of Chaim Grade
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Jun 13, 2026 |
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“America’s Founding Son”: Author & Musician Bob Crawford on the Life of John Quincy Adams
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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Natalia Rogach Alexander, "Growing People: The Enduring Legacy of John Dewey" (Columbia UP, 2025)
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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Understanding Themistocles: A Discussion with Author Michael Scott
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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Andrea Gunraj, "Go-Between Girl: My Indentured Roots as Reclaimed Present" (McClelland & Stewart, 2026)
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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Mollie Barnes, "Paper Heroines: Women Writers in Conversation and Community Across the Sea Islands, 1838-1902" (U South Carolina Press, 2026)
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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A Divine Comedy: On Hollywood, Creativity, and Religion with Rob Long
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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Steven Nadler, "Spinoza, Atheist" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, "Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word and Me" (37 Ink, 2026)
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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Craig Fehrman, "This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark" (Simon & Schuster, 2026)
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May 31, 2026 |
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Annette Gordon-Reed ed., "Jefferson on Race: A Reader" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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May 30, 2026 |
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Lauren W. Westerfield, "Woman House: Essays and Assemblages" (U Massachusetts Press, 2026)
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May 29, 2026 |
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Tony Lee Moral, "A Century of Hitchcock: The Man, the Myths, the Legacy" (UP of Kentucky, 2026)
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May 22, 2026 |
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Tom Meschery, "The Mad Manchurian: From the Internment Camps of Tokyo to the Hardwood Courts of the NBA" (Coffeetown Press, 2025)
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May 19, 2026 |
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Shannon McKenna Schmidt, "You Can't Catch Us: Lady Bird Johnson’s Trailblazing 1964 Campaign Train and the Women Who Rode With Her" (Sourcebooks, 2026)
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May 10, 2026 |
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Mary Lucia, " What Doesn't Kill Me Makes Me Weirder and Harder to Relate To" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
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May 07, 2026 |
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Lucy Stewart, "The Japanese Garden: Ella Christie and Cowden" (Birlinn, 2026)
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May 07, 2026 |
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Lerone Martin, "Young King: The Making of Martin Luther King Jr." (Amistad, 2026)
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May 05, 2026 |
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Nicholas Thompson, "The Running Ground: A Father, a Son, and the Simplest of Sports" (Random House, 2025)
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May 04, 2026 |
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Benjamin Y. Fong and Paul Prescod, "Rustin's Challenge" (2026)
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May 04, 2026 |
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Roger Frie, "Edge of Catastrophe: Erich Fromm, Fascism and the Holocaust" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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May 03, 2026 |
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Nicholas Tochka, "The Musical Lives of Charles Manson: The Beatles, the Beach Boys, and the Invention of the Sixties" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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May 03, 2026 |
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Paola De Santo, "The Ambassador and the Courtesan: Political Bodies in Renaissance Italy" (U Delaware Press, 2026)
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May 02, 2026 |
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Dylan Baun, "Beirut Radical: A Global Microhistory from the Sixties to the Lebanese Civil War" (I.B. Tauris, 2026)
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May 02, 2026 |
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William R. Brody, "Uncommon Sense: Rethinking Ordinary Problems in Extraordinary Ways" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Mary Lisa Gavenas, "Selling Opportunity: The Story of Mary Kay" (Penguin, 2026)
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Douglas Waller, "The Determined Spy: The Turbulent Life and Times of CIA Pioneer Frank Wisner" (Penguin, 2026)
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Apr 26, 2026 |
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Zaakir Tameez, "Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation" (Henry Holt, 2025)
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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Adam Henig, "Baseball's Outcast: The Story of Ron LeFlore" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg: Memoir and Testimony
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Apr 19, 2026 |
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Twelve Lives: Creating Literary Community with Raymond Williams, PhD
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Apr 19, 2026 |
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Myung-jin Han with Nicolas Levi, "I Was a North Korean Diplomat: Inside the Secret World of Pyongyang's Foreign Service" (Independently Published, 2026)
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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Yanara Friedland, "Thanatographies" (U Alabama Press, 2026)
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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Audrey Borowski, "Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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Kate Crane, "Whatever Happened to Eddy Crane?: A Memoir and an Investigation" (Hanover Square Press, 2026)
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Elizabeth Rosner, "Third Ear: Reflections on the Art and Science of Listening" (Catapult, 2025)
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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Rory Naismith, "Offa: King of the Mercians" (Yale UP, 2026)
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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David Potter, "Master of Rome: A Life of Julius Caesar" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Apr 11, 2026 |
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Ed Simon, "Writing During the Apocalypse: Reflections on the Great Unraveling" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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Katharine K. Wilkinson, "Climate Wayfinding: Healing Ourselves and the Planet We Call Home" (Amber Lotus Publishing, 2026)
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Scott M. Kenworthy, "The People's Patriarch: Tikhon Bellavin and the Orthodox Church in North America and Revolutionary Russia" (Oxford UP, 2026)
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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Eleanor Houghton, "Charlotte Brontë's Life in Clothes" (Bloomsbury 2026)
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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Eivind Røssaak, "The Cory Arcangel Hack: Digital Culture and Aesthetic Practice" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Apr 05, 2026 |
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Philip Boris Uninsky, "Invented Lives from Troubled Times: A Jewish Family’s Forms of Resilience after Surviving Pogroms, Revolution, and the Holocaust" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2025)
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Apr 05, 2026 |
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Meg Groff, "Not If I Can Help It: A Family Lawyer's Battles for Justice for Victims of Domestic Violence and the Poor" (Rivertowns Books, 2025)
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Apr 04, 2026 |
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Peter E. Gordon, "Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver" (Yale UP, 2026)
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Apr 04, 2026 |
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Caroline Tracey, "Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History" (W. W. Norton, 2026)
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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Robert Parish with Jake Uitti, "The Chief: The Story of the Boston Celtics’ Most Enigmatic Icon" (Triumph, 2026)
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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Chiang Mai 2015
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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Melissa Auf der Maur, "Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A '90s Rock Memoir" (DaCapo, 2026)
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Peter Mauch, "Tojo: The Rise and Fall of Japan's Most Controversial World War II General" (Harvard UP, 2026)
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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Cathryn J. Prince, "For the Love of Labor: The Life of Pauline Newman" (U Illinois Press, 2026)
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of Sholem Aleichem
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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David Bather Woods, "Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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The Vilna Gaon and the Making of Modern Judaism
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Mar 22, 2026 |
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Martha Feldman, "Castrato Phantoms: Moreschi, Fellini, and the Sacred Vernacular in Rome" (Zone Books, 2026)
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Mar 22, 2026 |
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Marc Chagall: Reflections of a Granddaughter
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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Kalpana Karunakaran, "A Woman of No Consequence: Memory, Letters and Resistance in Madras" (Context, 2026)
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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H. S. Jones, "Liberal Worlds: James Bryce and the Democratic Intellect" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Ethelene Whitmire, "The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram" (Viking, 2026)
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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Terese Svoboda, "Hitler and My Mother-In-Law" (OR Books, 2025)
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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Dana A. Williams, "Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship" (Amistad, 2025)
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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Charles Delgadillo and James Stacey, eds., "Heartland Utopia: William Allen White on the Ideal Midwestern Town" (UP of Kansas, 2026)
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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Glen Oglaza, "When I Stories" (Pegasus, 2024)
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry | Filmmaker Q&A
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Mar 07, 2026 |
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Vladka Meed's "On Both Sides of the Wall"
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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Daniel Brook, "The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin" (W. W. Norton & Co, 2025)
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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Richard Vinen, "The Last Titans: How Churchill and De Gaulle Saved Their Nations and Transformed the World" (Simon & Schuster, 2026)
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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Ani DiFranco and Lauren Coyle Rosen, "The Spirit of Ani: Reflections on Spirituality, Feminism, Music, and Freedom" (Akashic Books, 2026)
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Coming Out as Dalit with Yashica Dutt
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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E. T. Dailey, "Radegund: The Trials and Triumphs of a Merovingian Queen" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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Michael Glover Smith, "Bob Dylan as Filmmaker: No Time to Think" (McNidder and Grace, 2026)
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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Seamus McElearney with Barbara Finkelstein, "Flipping Capo: How the FBI Dismantled the Real Sopranos" (Chicago Review Press, 2025)
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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Preacher, Teacher, and Founder: On Princeton's famous President, John Witherspoon
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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Anna-Luna Post, "Galileo’s Fame: Science, Credibility, and Memory in the Seventeenth Century" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2025)
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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John Beyer, "Live a Little Better: One Man's Journey of Survival, Sobriety, and Success" (Worth, 2025)
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Ananya Vajpeyi, "Place: Intimate Encounters with Cities" (Women Unlimited Ink, 2025)
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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American Masterpiece: The Civil War Diaries of George Templeton Strong with Brenda Wineapple and Geoff Wisner
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Zalman Newfield, "Brooklyn Odyssey: My Journey Out of Hasidism" (Temple UP, 2026)
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Mai Serhan, "I Can Imagine It for Us: A Palestinian Daughter's Memoir" (American University in Cairo Press, 2025)
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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Mark Thomas Edwards, "Walter Lippmann: American Skeptic, American Pastor" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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Ray Yep, "Man in a Hurry: Murray MacLehose and Colonial Autonomy in Hong Kong" (Hong Kong UP, 2024)
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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Carla Kaplan, "Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford" (Harper, 2025)
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Brian Hallstoos, "Sol Butler: An Olympian's Odyssey through Jim Crow America" (U Illinois Press, 2026)
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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Cindy Schweich Handler, "A German Jew's Triumph: Fritz Oppenheimer and the Denazification of Germany" (McFarland, 2025)
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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Ian Gittins, "The Cure: A Perfect Dream" (Gemini Books, 2025)
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Karen Bermann, "The Art of Being a Stranger: A Family Memoir" (New Jewish Press, 2025)
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Elizabeth A. DeWolfe, "Alias Agnes: The Notorious Tale of a Gilded Age Spy" (UP of Kentucky, 2025)
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Marc Mierowsky, "A Spy Amongst Us: Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the Plot to End Scottish Independence" (Yale UP, 2026)
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Nicholas Boggs, "Baldwin: A Love Story" (FSG, 2025)
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Chris Washburn and Ron Chepesiuk, "Out of Bounds: From Broken NBA Dreams to Redemption" (WildBlue Press, 2025)
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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Matti Friedman, "Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai" (Spiegel & Grau, 2022)
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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Joshua D. Zimmerman, "Jozef Pilsudski: Founding Father of Modern Poland" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Feb 08, 2026 |
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Garrett Felber, "A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre" (AK Press, 2025)
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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164 Maurice Samuels: Jewish Assimilation, Integration and the Dreyfus Affair (JP)
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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Dianna N. Watkins-Dickerson, "A Black Woman for President: Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun, and Kamala Harris" (UP of Mississippi)
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Janet Kintner, "A Judge’s Tale: A Trailblazer Fights for her Place on the Bench" (She Writes Press, 2025)
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Sunny Dhillon, "Hide and Sikh: Letters from a Life in Brown Skin" (Wolsak and Wynn, 2025)
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Peter Stansky, "The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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Thomas Aiello, "Return of the King: The Rebirth of Muhammad Ali and the Rise of Atlanta" (U Nebraska Press, 2025)
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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Najati Sidqi, "Memoirs of a Palestinian Communist: The Secret Life of Najati Sidqi" (U Texas Press, 2025)
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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Betty Boyd Caroli, "A Slumless America: Mary K. Simkhovitch and the Dream of Affordable Housing" (Oxford UP, 2026)
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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Duy Lap Nguyen, "Walter Benjamin and the Critique of Political Economy: A New Historical Materialism" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams, "Kubrick: An Odyssey" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
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Jan 24, 2026 |
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Ben Ratliff, "Run the Song: Writing About Running About Listening" (Graywolf Press, 2025)
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Andrew Burstein, "Being Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Christopher Lynch, "Formulating Foster: Stephen C. Foster and the Creation of a National Musical Myth" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Oline Eaton, "Finding Jackie: The Second Act of America's First Lady" (Diversion Books, 2023)
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Jan 18, 2026 |
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Giles Tremlett, "El Generalísimo: A Biography of Francisco Franco" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Jan 17, 2026 |
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Everything Is Fine, I'll Just Work Harder: Confessions of a Former Badass
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, "P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance" (Duke UP, 2026)
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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Luiz Guilherme Burlamaqui, "The Making of Global FIFA: Cold War Politics and the Rise of João Havelange to the FIFA Presidency, 1950-1974" (De Gruyter, 2023)
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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Matthew Kennedy, "On Elizabeth Taylor: An Opinionated Guide" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Jan 11, 2026 |
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Chris Boucher, "Harry "Bucky" Lew: A Biography of the First Black Professional Basketball Player" (McFarland, 2026)
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Jan 11, 2026 |
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Stuart Klawans, "Crooked, But Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Jan 10, 2026 |
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David Morris, "Stealing The Future: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elite Fraud, and the Cult of Techno-Utopia" (Watkins Media, 2025)
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Bo Tao, "Cooperative Evangelist: Kagawa Toyohiko and His World, 1888-1960" (U Hawaii Press, 2025)
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Kelsey Klotz, "Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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D. J. Taylor, "Orwell: The New Life" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
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Jan 04, 2026 |
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Ashley Brown, "Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jan 03, 2026 |
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Richard Wolin, "Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Jan 02, 2026 |
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Richard Bradford, "Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, "Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
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Dec 27, 2025 |
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Douglas Morris, "Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler's Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Dec 25, 2025 |
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Marcus Willaschek, "Kant: A Revolution in Thinking" (Harvard UP, 2025)
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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Amy Bowers Cordalis, "The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family's Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life" (Little Brown, 2024)
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Michael Braddick, "Christopher Hill: The Life of a Radical Historian" (Verso Books, 2025)
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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Jane Eisner, "Carole King: She Made the Earth Move" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Dec 21, 2025 |
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Kwame Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism’s High Tide: A Conversation with Howard W. French
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Dec 20, 2025 |
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Joseph Torigian, "The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Michael Staunton, "Thomas Becket and His World" (Reaktion Books, 2025)
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Henry Rausch, "Submerged: Life on a Fast Attack Submarine in the Last Days of the Cold War" (Independently Published, 2024)
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Dec 06, 2025 |
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Ali Anooshahr, "Slavery in the Early Mughal World: The Life and Thoughts of Jawhar Aftabachi (1520s–1580s)" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Adam Silverstein, "Haman" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Brooke Barbier, "King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Dennis Deletant, "In Search of Romania" (Hurst, 2022)
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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Sarah Ruden, "Vergil: The Poet's Life" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Chris Yogerst, "The Warner Brothers" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Jonathan Eig, "King: A Life" (FSG, 2023)
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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Treena Orchard, "Sticky, Sexy, Sad: Swipe Culture and the Darker Side of Dating Apps" (Aevo, U Toronto Press, 2024)
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Christina Cecelia Davidson, "Dominican Crossroads: H.C.C. Astwood and the Moral Politics of Race-Making in the Age of Emancipation" (Duke UP, 2024)
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Emma Heaney, "This Watery Place: Four Essays on Gestation" (Pluto Press UK, 2025)
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Nov 23, 2025 |
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Julie Dobrow, "Love and Loss After Wounded Knee: A Biography of an Extraordinary Interracial Marriage" (NYU Press, 2025)
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Nov 22, 2025 |
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David Chanoff, "Anthony Benezet: Quaker, Abolitionist, Anti-Racist" (U Georgia Press, 2025)
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Nov 22, 2025 |
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Simon Appleford, "Drawing Liberalism: Herblock's Political Cartoons in Postwar America" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Dustin Condren, "An Imaginary Cinema: Sergei Eisenstein and the Unrealized Film" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Lester D. Friedman, "Citizen Spielberg" (U of Illinois Press, 2022)
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Philip Nash, "Clare Boothe Luce: American Renaissance Woman" (Routledge, 2022)
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Christina Lane, "Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock" (Chicago Review Press, 2020)
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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Aaron Magid, "The Most American King: Abdullah of Jordan" (Universal Publishers, 2025)
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Meg Groff, "Not If I Can Help It" (Rivertown Books, 2025)
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Judith L. Pearson, "Radical Sisters: Shirley Temple Black, Rose Kushner, Evelyn Lauder, and the Dawn of the Breast Cancer Movement" (Mayo Clinic Press, 2025)
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Al Posamentier, "Math Makers: The Lives and Works of 50 Famous Mathematicians" (Prometheus, 2020)
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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Martha Biondi, "We Are Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation" (U California Press, 2025)
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Nov 08, 2025 |
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David T. Beito, "FDR: A New Political Life" (Open Universe, 2025)
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr.
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Mark L. Clifford, "The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic" (Free Press, 2024)
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Elizabeth R. Hyman, "The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising" (Harper, 2025)
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Rob Wells, "The Insider: How the Kiplinger Newsletter Bridged Washington and Wall Street" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Brian Baker, "The Road" (Akashic Books, 2025)
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Diane Ravitch, "An Education: How I Changed My Mind About Schools and Almost Everything Else" (Columbia UP, 2025)
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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Patrick Parr, "Malcolm Before X" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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Ashley D. Farmer, "Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore" (Pantheon, 2025)
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Oct 25, 2025 |
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Sarah Smarsh, "Bone of the Bone: Essays on America from a Daughter of the Working Class" (Scribner, 2024)
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Oct 25, 2025 |
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Abhimanyu Kumar and Aletta André, "The House of Awadh: A Hidden Tragedy" (HarperCollins India, 2025)
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Carl Rollyson, "The Making of Sylvia Plath (UP Mississippi, 2024)
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Peter C. Zimmerman, "The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Maurice Samuels, "Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Stephen Fritz, "The First Soldier: Hitler as a Military Leader" (Yale UP, 2018)
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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Anthony Valerio, "Semmelweis: The Women's Doctor" (Zantedeschi Books, 2019)
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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Bill V. Mullen, "James Baldwin: Living in Fire" (Pluto Press, 2019)
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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Hilary Holladay, "The Power of Adrienne Rich: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Francis L. Sampson, "Look Out Below!: A Story of the Airborne by a Paratrooper Padre" (Catholic U of America Press, 2023)
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Mahboob Qirvanian and Behnaz Mirzai, "Life of an Enslaved African in the Ottoman Empire and Iran" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Nicolae Steinhardt, "The Journal of Joy" (SVS Press, 2025)
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Marion Orr, "House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr." (UNC Press, 2025)
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Árni Heimir Ingólfsson, "Music at World's End: Three Exiled Musicians from Nazi Germany and Austria and Their Contribution to Music in Iceland" (SUNY Press, 2025)
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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Sarah Hurwitz, "As a Jew: Reclaiming Our Story from Those Who Blame, Shame, and Try to Erase Us" (HarperOne, 2025)
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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Raymond J. McKoski, "David Davis, Abraham Lincoln's Favorite Judge" (U Illinois Press, 2025)
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Eibhear Walshe and Eleanor Fitzsimons, "Speranza: Poems by Jane Wilde" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Roddy Bottum, "The Royal We" (Akashic Books, 2025)
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Katie Herzog, "Drink Your Way Sober: The Science-Based Method to Break Free from Alcohol" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Todd McGowan, "The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Scott Beekman, "The Last Gladiator: William Muldoon and the Making of American Sports" (U Texas Press, 2025)
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth, "Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Extraordinary Art Collector" (Lund Humphries, 2025)
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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Árni Heimir Ingólfsson, "Jón Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland" (Indiana UP, 2019)
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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Robert Waxler and David Beckman, "You Say, I Say: Staying Alive with Literature, Language, and Friendship" (Rivertown Books, 2025)
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Stefanie Mercado Altman, Claire Altman, and Stan Altman, "Twice Blessed: A Story of Unconditional Love" (Fordham UP, 2025)
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Shulamit Reinharz, "Hiding in Holland: A Resistance Memoir" (Amsterdam Publishers, 2024)
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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James Campion, "Revolution: Prince, the Band, the Era" (Backbeat Books, 2025)
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Steven J. Zipperstein, "Philip Roth: Stung by Life" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Hadi Abdullah, "Critical Conditions: My Diary of the Syrian Revolution" (Doppelhouse Press, 2025)
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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“Plato and the Tyrant” with author James Romm
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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William Kelleher Storey, "The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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Edward Stanley et. al., "A North American Tour Journal 1824-1825: The Making of a Prime Minister" (Sutton Publishing, 2025)
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Sep 06, 2025 |
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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, "Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Susana M. Morris, "Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler" (Amistad Press, 2025)
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Tracy Slater, "Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp" (Chicago Review Press, 2025)
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Tom Arnold-Forster, "Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Micaela Sahhar, "Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An Encyclopaedia of a Palestinian Family" (Newsouth, 2025)
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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LaShawn Harris, "Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City" (Beacon, 2025)
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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Brendan Simms, "Hitler: A Global Biography" (Basic Books, 2019)
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr., "Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune" (Ballantine, 2013)
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Aug 23, 2025 |
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Gill Plain, "Agatha Christie: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Alexander Kimel and Martin Kimel, "The Pessimists Son: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2025)
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Stacia Kalinoski, Racing Uphill: Confronting a Life with Epilepsy (U of Minnesota Press, 2025)
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Mark Braude, "The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba from Empire to Exile" (Penguin Press, 2018)
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Aug 17, 2025 |
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Harriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" (Norton, 2025)
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Aug 16, 2025 |
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Inna Faliks, "Weight in the Fingertips: A Musical Odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the World Stage" (Backbeat Books, 2023)
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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W. Henry Sledge, "The Old Breed... The Complete Story Revealed" (Knox Press, 2025)
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Raffale Bedarida, "Corrado Cagli: Transatlantic Bridges (1938-1947" (Centro Primo Levi, 2023)
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Edward Berenson, "Perfect Communities: Levitt, Levittown, and the Dream of White Suburbia" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Edward Luce, "Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's Great Power Prophet" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Alan M. Wald, "Bohemian Bolsheviks: Dispatches from the Culture and History of the Left" (Brill, 2025)
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Grace C. Huang, "Chiang Kai-Shek's Politics of Shame: Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity in China" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Aug 09, 2025 |
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Teacher by Teacher: The People Who Change Our Lives
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Melody Glenn, "Mother of Methadone: A Doctor's Quest, a Forgotten History, and a Modern-Day Crisis" (Beacon Press, 2025)
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Robert Morstein-Marx, "Julius Caesar and the Roman People" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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Mark Vernon, "Awake!: William Blake and the Power of the Imagination" (Hurst & Co., 2025)
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Arianne Edmonds, "We Now Belong to Ourselves: J. L. Edmonds, the Black Press, and Black Citizenship in America" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Glenn Richardson, "WOLSEY" (Routledge, 2020)
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Victoria de Grazia, "The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Victoria de Grazia, "The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Marion Bower, "The Life and Work of Joan Riviere: Freud, Klein and Female Sexuality" (Routledge, 2018)
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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Julian Jackson, "De Gaulle" (Harvard UP, 2018)
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Jul 26, 2025 |
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Cynthia Blakeley, "The Innermost House: A Memoir" (Bright Leaf, 2024)
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Frank L. Jones, "Sam Nunn: Statesman of the Nuclear Age" (UP Kansas, 2020)
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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M’hamed Oualdi, "A Slave between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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David Engerman, "Apostles of Development: Six Economists and the World They Made" (Oxford UP and Penguin RandomHouse South Asia, 2025)
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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Brendan O'Meara, "The Front Runner: The Life of Steve Prefontaine" (HarperCollins, 2025)
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Rosemary Goring, "Exile: The Captive Years of Mary, Queen of Scots" (Berlinn, 2025)
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Jul 12, 2025 |
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Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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John Eldevik, "Reading Prester John: Cultural Fantasy and Its Manuscript Contexts" (Arc Humanities Press, 2024)
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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Alex Vernon, "Peace Is a Shy Thing: The Life and Art of Tim O'Brien" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
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Jul 05, 2025 |
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John DeVore, "Theatre Kids: A True Tale of Off-Off Broadway" (Applause, 2024)
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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Jennifer Kabat, "Nightshining: A Memoir in Four Floods" (Milkweed Editions, 2025)
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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John P. Gribbin, "Gribbin: A Family History of Ulster" (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2023)
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Jun 28, 2025 |
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Keith Merith, "A Darker Shade of Blue: A Police Officer's Memoir" (ECW Press, 2024)
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Jun 28, 2025 |
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Zachary Gorman, "The Young Menzies: Success, Failure, Resilience 1894-1942" (Melbourne UP, 2022)
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Nubar Hovsepian, "Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual" (AUC Press, 2025)
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Louis P. Masur, "A Journey North: Jefferson, Madison, and the Forging of a Friendship" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Kay Sohini, "This Beautiful, Ridiculous City: A Graphic Memoir" (Ten Speed Graphic, 2025)
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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The Truth About Bullshit: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary Edition of On Bullshit with Pamela Hieronymi
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Christopher Clarey, "The Warrior: Rafael Nadal and His Kingdom of Clay" (Grand Central Publishing, 2025)
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Kevin J. Hayes, "Undaunted Mind: The Intellectual Life of Benjamin Franklin" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Wendy Doniger, "An American Girl in India: Letters and Recollections, 1963-64" (SUNY Press, 2023)
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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David P. Celani, "Ronald Fairbairn: A Contemporary Introduction" (Routledge, 2024)
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Andreas Beyer, "Benvenuto Cellini and the Embodiment of the Modern Artist" (Reaktion, 2025)
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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Rob Edwards, "Defiant: The Story of Robert Smalls" (Stranger Comics, 2025)
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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Barbara Allen, "Lost Animals, Disappearing Worlds: Stories of Extinction" (Reaktion, 2025)
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Ana Hebra Flaster, "Property of the Revolution: From a Cuban Barrio to a New Hampshire Mill Town" (She Writes Press, 2025)
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Fyodor Tertitskiy, "Accidental Tyrant: The Life of Kim Il-sung" (Hurst UP, 2025)
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Myra Mendible, "American War Stories: Veteran-Writers and the Politics of Memoir" (University of Massachusetts Press, 2021)
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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Semmy Stalhammer, "Codename Barber: My Father’s Story" (Albert Bonniers Publishers, 2007)
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Sabrin Hasbun, "Crossing: A Love Story Between Italy and Palestine" (Footnote Press, 2025)
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Joseph Torigian, "The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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James Graham Wilson, "America's Cold Warrior: Paul Nitze and National Security from Roosevelt to Reagan" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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Christoph Schuringa, "Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Bonnie Yochelson, "Too Good to Get Married: The Life and Photographs of Miss Alice Austen" (Fordham UP, 2025)
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Victoria Bynum, "Deep Roots, Broken Branches: A History and Memoir" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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Stephen P. Huyler, "Transformed by India: A Life" (iIppa Rann, 2025)
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May 29, 2025 |
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Gina Leola Woolsey, "Fifteen Thousand Pieces" (Guernica Editions, 2023)
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May 27, 2025 |
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Dmitri N. Shalin, "Erving Manuel Goffman: Biographical Sources of Sociological Imagination" (Routledge, 2024)
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May 25, 2025 |
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Stephen R. Platt, "The Raider: The Untold Story of a Renegade Marine and the Birth of U.S. Special Forces in World War II" (Knopf, 2025)
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May 22, 2025 |
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Maureen Stanton, "The Murmur of Everything Moving: A Memoir" (Columbus State UP, 2025)
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May 21, 2025 |
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Yosie Levine, "Hakham Tsevi Ashkenazi and the Battlegrounds of the Early Modern Rabbinate" (Littman Library, 2024)
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May 20, 2025 |
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Andrew Holter, ed., "Going Around: Selected Journalism / Murray Kempton" (Seven Stories Press, 2025)
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May 19, 2025 |
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Michael A. Meyer, "Above All, We Are Jews: A Biography of Rabbi Alexander Schindler" (CCAR Press, 2025)
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May 18, 2025 |
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Noel Rubinton, "Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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May 17, 2025 |
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Mayukh Sen, "Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star" (Norton, 2025)
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May 16, 2025 |
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Marc Shapiro, "Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New: The Unique Vision of Rav Kook" (Littman Library, 2025)
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May 15, 2025 |
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Annie Zaleski, "I Got You Babe: A Celebration of Cher" (Running Press Adult, 2025)
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May 14, 2025 |
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Robert F. Darden and Stephen M. Newby, "Soon and Very Soon: The Transformative Music and Ministry of Andraé Crouch" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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May 13, 2025 |
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Elaine Pagels, "Miracles and Wonder:The Historical Mystery of Jesus" (Doubleday, 2025)
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May 12, 2025 |
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Nechama Birnbaum, "The Redhead of Auschwitz: A True Story" (Amsterdam Publishers, 2021)
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May 07, 2025 |
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John Lee Hooker Jr., "From the Shadow of the Blues: My Story of Music, Addiction, and Redemption" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)
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May 05, 2025 |
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Jerome Powell: “We don't think you're a straight shooter"
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May 04, 2025 |
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Janet Yellen: “She had a view that the world was on fire”
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May 03, 2025 |
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Ben Bernanke: “Like being a paleontologist”
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May 02, 2025 |
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Alan Greenspan: “The man who knew”
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May 01, 2025 |
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Alexandra Popoff, "Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Chris Stowers, "Shoot, Ask...and Run" (Earnshaw Books Ltd, 2025)
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Reider Payne, "War and Diplomacy in the Napoleonic Era" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Geoffrey Roberts, "Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Ignat Solzhenitsyn, ed., "We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn" (U Notre Dame Press, 2025)
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Apr 20, 2025 |
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Kayla E.'s "Precious Rubbish" (Fantagraphics Books, 2025)
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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Erica Stern, "Frontier: A Memoir and a Ghost Story" (Barrelhouse Inc., 2025)
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Martha A. Sandweiss, "The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Ulf Zander, "Raoul Wallenberg: Life and Legacy" (Lund UP, 2024)
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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Mark Doyle, "John Cale's Paris 1919" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Karen A. Frenkel, "Family Treasures: Lost & Found" (Post Hill Press, 2025)
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Stephen J. Campbell, "Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Loretta Vandi, "Eufrasia Burlamacchi" (Getty Publications, 2025)
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Seán Creagh, "Republican Solipsist: The Life and Times of Joseph Mcgarrity, 1874-1940" (Peter Lang, 2025)
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Apr 06, 2025 |
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Michael Backus, "The Heart Is Meat: An 80s Memoir" (Oil on Water Press, 2025)
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Apr 05, 2025 |
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Martha S. Jones, "The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir" (Basic Books, 2025)
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Miriam Haughton, "The Theatre of Louise Lowe" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Jason Cannon, "A Time for Reflection: The Parallel Legacies of Baseball Icons Willie McCovery and Billy Williams" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Letizia Osti, "History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate: Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature" (I. B. Tauris, 2024)
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Mar 29, 2025 |
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Mikhail Goldis, "Memoirs of a Jewish District Attorney from Soviet Ukraine" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Lincoln A. Mitchell, "Three Years Our Mayor: George Moscone and the Making of Modern San Francisco" (U Nevada Press, 2025)
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Donna Besel, "The Unravelling: Incest and the Destruction of a Family" (U Regina Press, 2021)
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Simon Morrison, "Tchaikovsky's Empire: A New Life of Russia's Greatest Composer" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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Heather Akou, "Afterthought: A Family Story" (Indiana U Libraries, 2025)
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Mar 22, 2025 |
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Jon Chapple, "Sri Krishna Prem: A Wing and a Prayer" (Blazing Sapphire Press, 2024)
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Andrew Janiak, "The Enlightenment's Most Dangerous Woman: Émilie Du Châtelet and the Making of Modern Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Douglas Field, "Walking in the Dark: James Baldwin, My Father and I" (Manchester UP, 2024)
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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Patrick Beldio, "The Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram: Co-Creator of the Integral Yoga" (Lexington Books, 2024)
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe, "Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist: Fascism, Genocide, and Cult" (Ibidem Press, 2014)
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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Ariane Sherine, "The Real Sinéad O'Connor" (White Owl, 2024)
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Mar 08, 2025 |
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Rachelle Bergstein, "The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us" (Atria, 2024)
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Elizabeth T. Craft, "Yankee Doodle Dandy: George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Arwen P. Mohun, "American Imperialist: Cruelty and Consequence in the Scramble for Africa" (Chicago UP, 2023)
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, "Bong Joon Ho" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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John Coakley ed et al., "The Problem of Piracy in the Early Modern World: Maritime Predation, Empire, and the Construction of Authority at Sea" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Michael Visontay, "Noble Fragments: The Gripping Story of the Antiquarian Bookseller Who Broke Up a Gutenberg Bible" (Scribe, 2024)
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Paul Lisicky, "Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell" (HarperOne, 2025)
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Isabel Moreira, "Balthild of Francia: Anglo-Saxon Slave, Merovingian Queen, and Abolitionist Saint" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Florence Martin, "Farida Benlyazid and Moroccan Cinema" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Blanche Bendahan, "Mazaltob: A Novel" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Mary Flannery, "Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
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Feb 22, 2025 |
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Susan Tate Ankeny, "American Flygirl" (Citadel Press, 2024)
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Janet Sherfund, "Abandoned at Birth: Searching for the Arms that Once Held Me" (Worth, 2024)
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Xian Wang, "Gendered Memories: An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at the New Yorker
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Mary Frances Phillips, "Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins" (NYU Press, 2025)
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Ruby Lowe on John Milton’s Definition of Free Speech
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Caroline Topperman, "Your Roots Cast a Shadow: One Family's Search across History for Belonging" (HCI, 2024)
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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Kenneth Roth, "Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments" (Knopf, 2025)
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Feb 15, 2025 |
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Jay Prosser, "Loving Strangers: A Camphorwood Chest, a Legacy, a Son Returns" (Black Spring Press, 2024)
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Alisse Waterston, "My Father's Wars: Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century" (Routledge, 2024)
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Jeff Copeland, "Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn" (Feral House, 2025)
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Stan Bunger, "Mornings with Madden: My Radio Life With An American Legend" (Triumph, 2024)
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Rosemary Wakeman, "The Worlds of Victor Sassoon: Bombay, London, Shanghai, 1918–1941" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Ann Schmiesing, "The Brothers Grimm: A Biography" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Jean Strouse, "Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers" (FSG, 2024)
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Alexis Wolf, "Transnational Women Writers in the Wilmot Coterie, 1798-1840" (Boydell Press, 2024)
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Elio Zarmati, "Goodbye, Tahrir Square: Coming of Age as a Jew of the Nile" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2025)
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Yves Rees, "Travelling to Tomorrow: How Australia's Modern Women Pioneered Our Romance with the United States" (New South, 2024)
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Feb 02, 2025 |
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Lionel Barber, "Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi Son" (Atria, 2024)
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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About Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Anand Venkatkrishnan, "Love in the Time of Scholarship: The Bhagavata Purana in Indian Intellectual History" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Peter Brian Barry, "George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Christopher Burnham, "Sir Ronald Storrs: Personality and Policy in Mandate Palestine, 1917-1926" (Routledge, 2024)
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Vera Keller, "Curating the Enlightenment: Johann Daniel Major and the Experimental Century" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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The Cambridge Centennial Edition of The Great Gatsby
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Jan 25, 2025 |
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The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Michael Ray Richardson, "Banned: How I Squandered an All-Star NBA Career Before Finding My Redemption" (Sports Publishing, 2024)
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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Patchen Barss, "The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius" (Basic Books, 2024)
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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Joel Whitebook, "Freud: An Intellectual Biography" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Amy Aronson, "Chrystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Jan 05, 2025 |
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Stuart Elden, "The Early Foucault" (Polity Press, 2021)
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-1934" (UVA Press, 2020)
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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Donna Tesiero, "A Revolutionary Woman: Elizabeth Freeman and the Abolition of Slavery in the North" (McFarland, 2024)
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illusion" (Picador, 2018)
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Harvey J. Kaye, "The British Marxist Historians" (Zero Book, 2022)
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Dec 29, 2024 |
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Emily Herring, "Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People" (Basic Books, 2024)
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Dec 29, 2024 |
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Susanna Ashton, "A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin" (New Press, 2024)
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Dec 29, 2024 |
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Peter Salmon, "An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida" (Verso, 2020)
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Dec 28, 2024 |
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Daniel B. Hinshaw, "Journey to Simplicity: The Life and Wisdom of Archimandrite Roman Braga" (St Vladimirs Seminary Press, 2023)
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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Linda M. Clemmons, "Unrepentant Dakota Woman: Angelique Renville & the Struggle for Indigenous Identity, 1845-1876" (SDHS Press, 2023)
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Dec 22, 2024 |
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Joseph McBride, "George Cukor's People: Acting for a Master Director" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Dec 21, 2024 |
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Paul French, "Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Dianne Ashton and Melissa R. Klapper, "The Civil War Diary of Emma Mordecai" (NYU Press, 2024)
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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Emanuela Trevisan Semi, "Taamrat Emmanuel: An Ethiopian Jewish Intellectual, Between Colonized and Colonizers" (Centro Primo Levi, 2018)
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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David J. Collins, SJ, "Disenchanting Albert the Great: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Magician" (Penn State UP, 2024)
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Beth Kaplan, "Finding the Jewish Shakespeare: The Life and Legacy of Jacob Gordin" (Syracuse UP, 2007)
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Rebecca Brenner Graham, "Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany" (Citadel Press, 2025)
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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F. K. Clementi, "South of My Dreams: Finding My American Home, A Memoir" (U South Carolina Press, 2024)
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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Henri Colt, "Becoming Modigliani" (Rake Press, 2024)
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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Marlene L. Daut, "The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe" (Knopf, 2025)
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Dec 08, 2024 |
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Jane Austen's Darkness: A Conversation with Julia Yost
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Julie Salverson, "A Necessary Distance: Confessions of a Scriptwriter's Daughter" (Wolsak and Wynn, 2024)
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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Keith Gandal, "Firsthand: How I Solved a Literary Mystery and Learned to Play Kickass Tennis While Coming to Grips with the Disorder of Things" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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Seth Rogovoy, "Within You Without You: Listening to George Harrison" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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Mary Ellen Curtin, "She Changed the Nation: Barbara Jordan's Life and Legacy in Black Politics" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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Denys Turner, "Dante the Theologian" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Cornelia M. Spelman, "Solace" (Jackleg Press, 2024)
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Connie DeNave, "The Image Maker: Shattering Rock and Roll's Glass" (2023)
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Peter Worthing, "General He Yingqin: The Rise and Fall of Nationalist China" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
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Nov 17, 2024 |
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Karen M. Dunak, "Our Jackie: Public Claims on a Private Life" (NYU Press, 2024)
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Nov 17, 2024 |
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Deborah Parker, "Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters" (Villa I Tatti, 2024)
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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David Tereshchuk, "A Question of Paternity: My Life As an Unaffiliated Reporter" (Envelope Books, 2024)
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Sara Glass, "Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir" (Atria, 2024)
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Janusz Korczak, "How to Love a Child and Other Selected Works" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2018)
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Paul M. Renfro, "The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America" (UNC Press, 2024)
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Nov 10, 2024 |
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Rachel Zimmerman, "Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide" (SFWP, 2024)
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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James M. Bradley, "Martin Van Buren: America's First Politician" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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John Duffus, "Backstage in Hong Kong: A Life with the Philharmonic, Broadway Musicals and Classical Superstars" (Blacksmith Books, 2024)
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Karine Rashkovsky, "An Improbable Life: My Father's Escape from Soviet Russia" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2024)
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Douglas J. Engelman, "A Boy Broken: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Mental Illness, Loss, and a Search for Meaning" (2023)
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Avi Shlaim, "Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew" (Oneworld, 2024)
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Nov 03, 2024 |
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Phuc Tran, "Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In" (Flatiron Books, 2020)
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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Mirin Fader, "Dream: The Life and Legacy of Hakeem Olajuwon" (Hachette, 2024)
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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Richard Schoch, "How Sondheim Can Change Your Life" (Atria Books, 2024)
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Ronald Drabkin, "Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor" (William Morrow, 2024)
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Rajbir Singh Judge, "Prophetic Maharaja: Loss, Sovereignty, and the Sikh Tradition in Colonial South Asia" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Sharon Kinoshita, "Marco Polo and His World" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
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Oct 26, 2024 |
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Bob Frishman, "Edward Duffield: Philadelphia Clockmaker, Citizen, Gentleman, 1730-1803" (APS Press, 2024)
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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S. L. Wisenberg, "The Adventures of Cancer Bitch" (Tortoise Books, 2024)
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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John Freed, “Frederick Barbarossa: The Prince and the Myth” (Yale UP, 2016)
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Anne Higonnet, "Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution" (Norton, 2024)
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Amy Reading, "The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker" (Mariner Books, 2024)
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Suganya Anandakichenin, "The Monsoon Cloud: Poet Kāḷamēkam and His Irreverent Poetry" (Primus, 2024)
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Jennifer Lang, "Landed: A Yogi's Memoir in Pieces & Poses" (Vine Leaves Press, 2024)
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri, "Beyond Orientalism: Ahmad Ibn Qasim Al-Hajari Between Europe and North Africa" (U California Press, 2023)
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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Jackie Wang, "Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood" (Semiotext(e), 2023)
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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Aliza Arzt, "Turning the Pages: Conversations Through Time with Rabbi Isador Signer" (Ben Yehuda Press, 2024)
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Oct 13, 2024 |
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Iris Jamahl Dunkle, "Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb" (U California Press, 2024)
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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Christopher Paul Clohessy, "Half of My Heart: The Narratives of Zaynab, Daughter of Alî" (Gorgias Press, 2020)
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav, "Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood" (India Viking, 2024)
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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William H. F. Altman, "Plato the Teacher: The Crisis of the Republic" (Lexington, 2012)
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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Jane Little Botkin, "The Pink Dress: A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen" (She Writes Press, 2024)
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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Francis Stevens, "The Heads of Cerberus and Other Stories" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Jack Palmer, "Zygmunt Bauman and the West: A Sociology of Intellectual Exile" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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Robert Polner and Michael Tubridy, "An Irish Passion for Justice: The Life of Rebel New York Attorney Paul O'Dwyer" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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Tom Navon, "Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust: Otto Heller (1897–1945)" (SUNY Press, 2024)
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Sep 21, 2024 |
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Jack Margolin, "The Wagner Group: Inside Russia’s Mercenary Army" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Alexis Pauline Gumbs, "Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" (FSG, 2024)
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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William H. F. Altman, "The German Stranger: Leo Strauss and National Socialism" (Lexington Books, 2010)
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Will Grant, "Populista: The Rise of Latin America's 21st Century Strongman" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Philip Freeman, "Julian: Rome's Last Pagan Emperor" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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Grant Olwage, "Paul Robeson's Voices" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Peter Rose, "The Good War of Consul Reeves" (Blacksmith Books, 2024)
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Matthew C. Ehrlich, "The Krebiozen Hoax: How a Mysterious Cancer Drug Shook Organized Medicine" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Yaacob Dweck, "Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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Tom Boniface-Webb, "Modern Music Masters: Oasis" (MMM, 2020)
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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Sara E. Johnson, "Encyclopédie Noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World" (Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2023)
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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James M. Scott, "Black Snow: Curtis Lemay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb" (Norton, 2024)
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Mark Blake, "Dreams: The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Magdalena J. Zaborowska, "Me and My House: James Baldwin's Last Decade in France" (Duke UP, 2018)
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Jonathan Butler, "Join the Conspiracy: How a Brooklyn Eccentric Got Lost on the Right, Infiltrated the Left and Brought Down the Biggest Bombing Network in New York" (Fordham UP, 2024)
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Kostas Kampourakis, "Darwin Mythology: Debunking Myths, Correcting Falsehoods" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Sanjay Lal, "Gandhi's Thought and Liberal Democracy" (Lexington Books, 2019)
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Karen Ordahl Kupperman, "Pocahontas and the English Boys: Caught Between Cultures in Early Virginia" (NYU Press, 2019)
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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Lise Butler, "Michael Young, Social Science, and the British Left, 1945-1970" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Ludovico Silva, "Marx's Literary Style" (Verso, 2023)
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Christopher Lovins, "King Chŏngjo: An Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea" (SUNY Press, 2019)
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Steve Moriarty, "Mia Zapata and the Gits: A True Story of Art, Rock and Revolution" (Ferel House, 2024)
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Adam Zamoyski, "Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess" (William Collins, 2024)
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Aug 24, 2024 |
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Rachel Kousser, "Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great" (Mariner Books, 2024)
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Lesley Smith, "Fragments of a World: William of Auvergne and His Medieval Life" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Shaul Magid, "Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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A Hidden Life (with Brian Zahnd)
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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James Madison and the Spirit of Self-Government: A Conversation with Colleen Sheehan
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Zoë Bossiere, "Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir" (Abrams Press, 2024)
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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Paul Volcker: “The only number that works is zero”
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Arthur Burns: “The smartest guy in the room”
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Bill Martin: “Truman looked at him and said: ‘Traitor’”
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Na'ou Liu, "Urban Scenes" (Cambria Press, 2023)
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Alexandra Popoff, "Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Edward Shanks, "The People of the Ruins" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Marriner Eccles: Reform “may not have happened in 1935 if Eccles hadn't been there”
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Douglas Greene, "The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky: The Renegade's Revenge" (Routledge, 2024)
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Aug 04, 2024 |
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Yiman Wang, "To Be an Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong's Cross-Media World" (U California Press, 2024)
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Aug 04, 2024 |
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Laura Beers. "Orwell’s Ghosts Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century" (Norton, 2024)
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Aug 03, 2024 |
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Iman Mersal, "Traces of Enayat" (Transit Books, 2023)
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Aug 03, 2024 |
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Shaul Magid on the Jewish Radicalism of Meir Kahane (JP, Eugene Sheppard)
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Steven E. Lindquist, "The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya" (SUNY Press, 2024)
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Tim Cooper, "When Christians Disagree: Lessons from the Fractured Relationship of John Owen and Richard Baxter" (Crossway, 2024)
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Jim Higgins, "Sweet, Wild and Vicious: Listening to Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground" (Trouser Press, 2024)
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Sheila Curran Bernard, "Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Jul 28, 2024 |
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Robin Darling Young et al, "Evagrius of Pontus: The Gnostic Trilogy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Jul 28, 2024 |
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Justin B. Stein, "Alternate Currents: Reiki’s Circulation in the Twentieth-Century North Pacific" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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Robyn Hitchcock, "1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left" (Akashic Books, 2024)
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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Naomi Westerman, "Happy Death Club: Essays on Death, Grief, and Bereavement Across Cultures" (404 Inklings, 2024)
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Francis X. Clooney, S.J., "Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar: A Love Story" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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David Burke, "The Puppet Masters: How MI6 Masterminded Ireland's Deepest State Crisis" (Mercier Press, 2024)
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Dan Morrison, "The Poisoner of Bengal: The 1930s Murder That Shocked the World" (Juggernaut, 2024)
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Steven Powell, "Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Suzanne Scanlon, "Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen" (Vintage, 2024)
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Yanagawa Seigan, "The Same Moon Shines on All: The Lives and Selected Poems of Yanagawa Seigan and Kōran" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Jul 21, 2024 |
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Stephanie Balkwill, "The Women Who Ruled China: Buddhism, Multiculturalism, and Governance in the Sixth Century" (U California Press, 2024)
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Jul 20, 2024 |
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Filmmaker, Artist, Writer: A Conversation with Paromita Vohra
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Diana P. Parsell, "Eliza Scidmore: The Trailblazing Journalist Behind Washington's Cherry Trees" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Fida Jiryis, "Stranger in My Own Land: Palestine, Israel and One Family's Story of Home" (Hurst, 2022)
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Emily Wilbourne, "Voice, Slavery, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Florence" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Tea Krulos, "American Madness: The Story of the Phantom Patriot and How Conspiracy Theories Hijacked American Consciousness" (Feral House, 2020)
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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The (ir)Rational Priests: On Ignacio Martín-Baró and Liberation Psychology
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb, "The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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Alan Lightman, "Einstein's Dreams" (Vintage, 1992)
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Jul 07, 2024 |
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Timothy Grieve-Carlson, "American Aurora: Environment and Apocalypse in the Life of Johannes Kelpius" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Jul 06, 2024 |
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Jeremy Black, "Defoe's Britain" (St. Augustine's Press, 2023)
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Marsha Gordon, "Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott" (U California Press, 2024)
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Verso l’Alto (with Christine Wohar)
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Michelle T. King, "Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-Mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food" (Norton, 2024)
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Lance J. Sussman, "Portrait of an American Rabbi: In His Own Words" (Xlibris US, 2023)
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, "An Impossible Friendship: Group Portrait, Jerusalem Before and After 1948" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Jun 29, 2024 |
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The (ir)Rational Mob: On the Life and Legacy of Gustave Le Bon
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Jun 29, 2024 |
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Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn, "The Shochet: A Memoir of Jewish Life in Ukraine and Crimea" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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Jeremy Schipper, "Denmark Vesey's Bible: The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Peter Hill, "Prophet of Reason: Science, Religion and the Origins of the Modern Middle East" (Oneworld Academic, 2024)
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Ann Powers, "Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell" (Dey Street Books, 2024)
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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Paula Marie Seniors, "Mae Mallory, the Monroe Defense Committee, and World Revolutions: African American Women Radical Activists" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
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Jun 22, 2024 |
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Christopher William England, "Land and Liberty: Henry George and the Crafting of Modern Liberalism" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Jared Stearns, "Pure: The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers" (Headpress, 2024)
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Laura Davis-Chanin and Liz Lamere, "Infinite Dreams: The Life of Alan Vega" (Backbeat Books, 2024)
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Peter Bergamin, "The Making of the Israeli Far-Right: Abba Ahimeir and Zionist Ideology” (I. B. Tauris, 2019)
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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Alan H. McGowan, "The Political Activism of Anthropologist Franz Boas, Citizen Scientist" (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2024)
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Aaron Fischman, "A Baseball Gaijin: Chasing a Dream to Japan and Back" (Sports Publishing, 2024)
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Jonathan A. Seitz, "Protestant Missionaries in China: Robert Morrison and Early Sinology" (U Notre Dame Press, 2024)
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Jun 03, 2024 |