Vietnamese and Asian Americans in this country, we are here because of wars that the United States fought in Asia. This is a country of high ideals, of democracy and pluralism; on the other hand, it’s rooted in warfare and conquest...
Camila Valle interviews Selma James about feminism, anti-imperialism, and a lifetime of international Marxist organizing.
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Kitchen Arts & Letters has hung on during the pandemic, and co-owner Matt Sartwell is ready for an exciting next chapter.
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This new book, by the head of the Bodleian Library in Oxford, is a timely warning. "Its tone is set early on, with an epigraph from Heinrich Heine," writes reviewer Larman: “Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn human beings."
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They may not all be beach reading, but this clutch of books will keep any reader busy--working or not--in the doleful last days of summer.
Tracing the history of an idea, the author charts liberalism’s two century Jekyll and Hyde existence as a credo on freedom and an ill-fitting defender of mass democracy.
Research data from 160,000 adults in 31 countries concludes that a sizeable home library gave teen school leavers skills equivalent to university graduates who didn’t read
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