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Many of us think of Harriet Tubman as a lone heroic figure. But the truth is she was never alone; she did things that other people did not do.
Today, Elizabeth Kolbert’s book remains an important reminder of what is at stake — nothing less than the future of life on earth.
Three new picture books offer help for kids wanting to be perfect, giving feedback, and finding your place in the world.
James Lee Burke’s “Clete” is Beat poetry, suffused with sadness and longing for all those sunsets now gone.
Film historian Peter Cowie’s writing is always intelligent, if somewhat dry, and normally correct in its evaluations of Ingmar Bergman’s films.
The graphics in “The Warehouse” provide clear explanations of a grim reality. The U.S. leads the world at incarcerating its citizens.
The inciting action of Smith’s moving memoir is the event that forced her to reckon with the fact that her marriage was in trouble.
The reissue of this novel now is valuable, beyond its considerable historical and aesthetic virtues, because it makes pertinent points about today’s world, bedeviled by war, misery, poverty, and the enticing lure of despotism as an answer to democracy’s shortcomings.
It is ironic — but understandable — that 50 years ago only a handful of people experienced what has become one of the iconic happenings of 20th century art.
Book Review: “Freeman’s Challenge” — Essential Reading on Prisons, Slavery, and Profit
The prison was the first in the nation specifically designed to generate a profit for everybody but the laborers.
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