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"Having struggled through 'New People,' I told myself I would read 'Caucasia' next. Technically, that's what going to happen, even though 'Colored Television' dropped into my queue next. I just didn't finish it. It felt like a rehash of 'New People..."
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"A brilliant dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity-industrial complex. Jane has high hopes her life is about to turn around. After years of living precariously, she, her painter husband, Lenny, and their...
Schama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of affluence, and lived in constant dread of being corrupted by happiness. Drawing on a vast array of period...
From the hosts of The War on Cars podcast, a searing indictment of how cars ruin everything - and what we can do to fight back!
In this book the author shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and...
