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The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

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What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era

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Age of Cage

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82/99

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54/99

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The Bright Book of Life: Novels to Read and Reread

Harold Bloom

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94/99

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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

Timothy Egan

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41/99

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32/99

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Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books

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43/99

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20/99

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Nat Segaloff

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Selected Letters of John Updike

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52/99

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65/99

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32/99

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Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas

Glenn Kenny

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The Secret Public: How Music Moved Queer Culture From the Margins to the Mainstream

Jon Savage

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42/99

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56/99

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28/99

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Selected Amazon Reviews (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)

Kevin Killian

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53/99

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54/99

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It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO

Felix Gillette

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25/99

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10/99

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Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon

Mark McGurl

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54/99

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52/99

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One Bad Mother

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36/99

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58/99

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Anita Diamant

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50/99

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Anahid Nersessian

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58/99

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Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

Steven Pinker

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32/99

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46/99

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The State of Israel vs. the Jews

Sylvain Cypel, Tr. William Rodarmor

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38/99

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21/99

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55/99

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Divided We Fall: America's Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation

David French

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34/99

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52/99

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17/99

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On Violence and On Violence Against Women

Jacqueline Rose

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58/99

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65/99

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50/99

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How Sondheim Can Change Your Life

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34/99

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52/99

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16/99

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Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy

Amy Gajda

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82/99

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82/99

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82/99

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Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

Werner Herzog, Trans. by Michael Hofmann

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58/99

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74/99

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43/99

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Everything I Need I Get from You

Kaitlyn Tiffany

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79/99

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68/99

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90/99

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Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm

Dan Charnas

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14/99

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12/99

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17/99

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Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis

Grace Lavery

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23/99

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30/99

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16/99

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The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning

Justin E H Smith

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65/99

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76/99

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54/99

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Michael Gorra

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52/99

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61/99

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42/99

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A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature

Adam Morgan

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44/99

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52/99

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36/99

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Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate

Daniel Mendelsohn

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58/99

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48/99

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68/99

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Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

Amanda Leduc

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68/99

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74/99

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62/99

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This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future

Jonathan Martin

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34/99

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28/99

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47/99

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60/99

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Afropessimism

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42/99

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8/99

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Making Darkness Light: A Life of John Milton

Joe Moshenska

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72/99

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76/99

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67/99

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The Insider: Malcolm Cowley and the Triumph of American Literature

Gerald Howard

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50/99

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71/99

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The McCartney Legacy, Volume 1: 1969-73

Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair

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61/99

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82/99

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40/99

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40/99

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57/99

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24/99

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Entertaining Race: Performing Blackness in America

Michael Eric Dyson

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10/99

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1/99

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42/99

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65/99

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20/99

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48/99

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46/99

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49/99

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Emily Raboteau

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60/99

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44/99

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75/99

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Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon

Kate Andersen Brower

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80/99

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86/99

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74/99

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Cinema Speculation

Quentin Tarantino

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56/99

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60/99

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52/99

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The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race

Farah Karim-Cooper

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41/99

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52/99

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Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century

W. David Marx

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50/99

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36/99

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Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader

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34/99

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28/99

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Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature

Dan Sinykin

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70/99

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86/99

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53/99

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Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State

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58/99

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46/99

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70/99

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Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice

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33/99

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62/99

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Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

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42/99

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48/99

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36/99

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Batja Mesquita

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38/99

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41/99

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36/99

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Laurence Leamer

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42/99

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41/99

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42/99

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The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success

Ross Douthat

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17/99

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26/99

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The Philip Roth We Don't Know: Sex, Race, and Autobiography

Jacques Berlinerblau

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80/99

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74/99

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The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game

C. Thi Nguyen

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45/99

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44/99

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Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound

Daphne A. Brooks

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46/99

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71/99

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22/99

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Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence

Frances Wilson

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39/99

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38/99

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You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell

Leonard S. Marcus

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66/99

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64/99

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67/99

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To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other

Viet Thanh Nguyen

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64/99

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67/99

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Chris Nashawaty

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49/99

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34/99

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Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation

Nuar Alsadir

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39/99

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32/99

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Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution

Nona Willis Aronowitz

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31/99

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22/99

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James Baldwin's Another Country: Bookmarked

Kim McLarin

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57/99

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36/99

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78/99

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Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping

Matthew Salesses

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63/99

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72/99

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54/99

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Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Philip Gefter

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52/99

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60/99

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44/99

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The Wife of Bath: A Biography

Marion Turner

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36/99

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47/99

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25/99

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The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism

Kyle Chayka

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74/99

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77/99

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72/99

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A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing

Hilary Mantel

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14/99

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12/99

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17/99

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Run the Song: Writing About Running About Listening

Ben Ratliff

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66/99

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91/99

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42/99

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Margo Jefferson

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56/99

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52/99

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61/99

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Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health

Thomas Insel

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10/99

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12/99

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9/99

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The Walker: On Losing and Finding Yourself in the Modern City

Matthew Beaumont

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28/99

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21/99

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34/99

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A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete

Geo Maher

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38/99

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21/99

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54/99

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Off With Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power

Eleanor Herman

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37/99

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12/99

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62/99

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The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America―and How to Undo His Legacy

David Gelles

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26/99

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27/99

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26/99

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Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch

David Mamet

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18/99

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24/99

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12/99

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Authority and Freedom: A Defense of the Arts

Jed Perl

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30/99

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42/99

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18/99

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Cleopatra: Her History, Her Myth

Francine Prose

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51/99

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64/99

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38/99

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Larissa Pham

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47/99

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28/99

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66/99

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This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

Lyz Lenz

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35/99

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50/99

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20/99

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Image Control: Art, Fascism, and the Right to Resist

Patrick Nathan

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58/99

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65/99

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52/99

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Paisley Rekdal

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56/99

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74/99

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38/99

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Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel

Edwin Frank

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55/99

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57/99

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53/99

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We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine

Alissa Wilkinson

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28/99

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12/99

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43/99

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The Hidden Order of Intimacy: Reflections on the Book of Leviticus

Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg

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60/99

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56/99

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65/99

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On Antisemitism: A Word in History

Mark Mazower

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45/99

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64/99

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26/99

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David Damrosch

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36/99

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40/99

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32/99

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Didn't We Almost Have It All: In Defense of Whitney Houston

Gerrick Kennedy

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64/99

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81/99

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46/99

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Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph

Lucasta Miller

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68/99

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78/99

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59/99

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Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World

Dorian Lynskey

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61/99

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52/99

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70/99

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The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

Chris Hayes

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35/99

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20/99

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50/99

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Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind

Alan Jacobs

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41/99

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34/99

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48/99

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What Is Wrong with Men: Patriarchy, the Crisis of Masculinity, and How (Of Course) Michael Douglas Films Explain Everything

Jessa Crispin

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36/99

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40/99

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32/99

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Gallery of Clouds

Rachel Eisendrath

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49/99

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30/99

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68/99

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Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever

Matt Singer

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28/99

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40/99

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15/99

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The Very Last Interview

David Shields

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42/99

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40/99

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43/99

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The Loneliest Americans

Jay Caspian Kang

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16/99

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2/99

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30/99

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Balzac's Lives

Peter Brooks

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30/99

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24/99

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35/99

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To Write as if Already Dead (Rereadings)

Kate Zambreno

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34/99

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21/99

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48/99

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Woman: The American History of an Idea

Lillian Faderman

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46/99

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52/99

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41/99

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The Intimate City: Walking New York

Michael Kimmelman

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17/99

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12/99

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22/99

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Identity, Ignorance, Innovation: Why the old politics is useless - and what to do about it

Matthew D'Ancona

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72/99

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76/99

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68/99

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Kelefa Sanneh

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30/99

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36/99

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23/99

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Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read

Terry Eagleton

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36/99

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35/99

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38/99

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How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment

Skye C Cleary

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16/99

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21/99

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12/99

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Heather Cass White

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58/99

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74/99

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43/99

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The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story

Sam Wasson

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34/99

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42/99

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26/99

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Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood

David Mamet

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