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Nothing Personal
James Baldwin
James Baldwin’s critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social...
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Notes of a Native Son
James Baldwin
Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by The Guardian and TIME The essays in James...
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Novelist as a Vocation
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Native Sons
James Baldwin, Sol Stein
James Baldwin was beginning to be recognized as the most brilliant black writer of his generation when his first book...
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Erasing Palestine
Rebecca Gould
How the redefinition of antisemitism has functioned as a tactic to undermine Palestine solidarity The widespread adoption of the IHRA...
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Absolutely on Music
Haruki Murakami, Seiji Ozawa
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I Am Not Your Negro
James Baldwin, Raoul Peck
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In his final years, one of America’s greatest writers envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends,...
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Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami
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