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Apr.19.2009
This anthology begins over two hundred years ago, with black writers like Ignatius Sancho and Olaudah Equiano, who had direct experience of the slave trade, grappling not only with the difficulties of belonging but also with a new language.
A revelatory and compelling anthology which redefines our...
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Apr.19.2009
Included in this anthology, edited by Caryl Phillips, are Martin Amis in praise of Pete Sampras, Alistair Cooke on "Why I love Gabriela Sabatini," and Fred Perry describing his first Wimbledon win, when the crowds backed his Australian opponent, considering Perry too working-class.
The...
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Apr.19.2009
Phillips begins this distinctive collection of essays by establishing his belief that there is a "new world order" of cultural plurality, one which is being promoted by the increasingly central role of the migrant and the refugee in the modern world.
A New World Order ranges widely across...
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Sep.11.2008
In September 1857, a wagon train passing through Utah laden with gold was attacked. Approximately 140 people were slaughtered; only 17 children under the age of eight were spared. This incident in an open field called Mountain Meadows has ever since been the focus of passionate debate: Is it...
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Jan.04.2008
In Masters of Death, Rhodes gives full weight, for the first time, to the Einsatzgruppen’s role in the Holocaust. These “special task forces,” organized by Heinrich Himmler to follow the German army as it advanced into eastern Poland and Russia, were the agents of the first phase of the Final...
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Jan.04.2008
Lonnie Athens was raised in a violent world. His father was a hot-tempered man who shot at strangers and beat his wife and literally bashed his sons’ heads together. So when Athens began studying for his doctorate in criminology at the University of California, Berkeley, it was only natural that he...
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Dec.27.2007
The thirty-three stories in this volume prove that American short fiction maybe be our most distinctive national art form. As selected and introduced by Tobias Wolff, they also make up an alternate map of the United States that represents not just geography but narrative traditions, cultural...
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Dec.21.2007
Le Mariage is a sparkling new novel—a comedy of manners from the author of Le Divorce, an acclaimed national bestseller and 1997 National Book Award finalist.
Many have compared Diane Johnson to such great literary figures as Jane Austen, Henry James, Edith Wharton, and F. Scott Fitzgerald—all...
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Dec.21.2007
The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Here’s a storyteller’s tale of what they endured in a strange new land.
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Dec.21.2007
The Woman Warrior is a pungent, bitter, but beautifully written memoir of growing up Chinese American in Stockton, California. Maxine Hong Kingston (China Men) distills the dire lessons of her mother’s mesmerizing “talk-story” tales of a China where girls are worthless, tradition is exalted and...
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