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Winning The Earthquake: How Jeannette Rankin Defied All Odds To Become The First Woman In Congress by Lorissa Rinehart

Traumatized: The New Politics of Public Suffering by Catherine Liu

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Politics

Washington Is Burning: Corruption and Lies in the Age of Trump by Andrew Cockburn

The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document that Fails Them by Aziz Rana

Fiction Reviews

Land by Maggie O’Farrell

Talking to the Wolf by Rebecca Chace

Body Double by Hanna Johansson, translated by Kira Josefsson

Agnes Lives! by Hallie Elizabeth Newton

Winning The Earthquake: How Jeannette Rankin Defied All Odds To Become The First Woman In Congress by Lorissa Rinehart

St. Martin’s Press Review by Brian Tanguay Barbara Lee, a Black Congresswoman from California, cast the sole vote opposing the Authorization for the Use of Military Force after the 9/11…

Traumatized: The New Politics of Public Suffering by Catherine Liu

Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World by Patrick Wyman

Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures: A Biography of Denis Johnson by Ted Geltner

Starting from Paterson by Garret Keizer

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