Category: history
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Book Review: Everyone Who is Gone is Here, by Jonathan Blitzer
“No one ever wants to migrate. The whole thing is a fight not to become invisible.” These are the words of an immigrant who lost an arm and a leg trying to enter the promised land. Making the invisible suffering of migrants visible is this book’s ultimate triumph. Blitzer does a masterful job at capturing…
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Book Review: On Freedom, by Timothy Snyder
This beautiful, intimate book about what freedom really means is the book we all need as the term becomes increasingly abused by the far right.
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Book Review: Money, by David McWilliams
As books on money go, few are as fun as this.
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Book Review: Humanly Possible, by Sarah Bakewell
Sarah Bakewell’s fun and well-considered history of humanist thought is a fantastic addition to humanist literature.
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Book Review: An African History of Africa, by Zeinab Badawi
Zeinab Badawi’s African History of Africa did not quite live up to its admirable and long-overdue ambition.