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Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
50/99
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36/99
Critics
18/99
Readers
96/99
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Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature
49/99
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80/99
Critics
18/99
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Making Darkness Light: A Life of John Milton
26/99
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22/99
Critics
31/99
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Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service
51/99
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47/99
Critics
55/99
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Gallery of Clouds
32/99
I Index
51/99
Critics
14/99
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Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader
Criticism
56/99
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65/99
Critics
46/99
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Hollywood: The Oral History
70/99
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76/99
Critics
38/99
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97/99
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Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions
36/99
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65/99
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8/99
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Blueberries
57/99
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79/99
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35/99
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Image Control: Art, Fascism, and the Right to Resist
62/99
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53/99
Critics
48/99
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86/99
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Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read
Criticism
28/99
I Index
23/99
Critics
32/99
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Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time
46/99
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46/99
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46/99
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Age of Cage
88/99
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87/99
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90/99
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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
11/99
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16/99
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6/99
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The Walker: On Losing and Finding Yourself in the Modern City
Criticism
14/99
I Index
15/99
Critics
14/99
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Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis
24/99
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38/99
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9/99
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Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life
28/99
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29/99
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28/99
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Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business
74/99
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81/99
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67/99
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The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive
63/99
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51/99
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58/99
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79/99
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Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse