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Thursday, June 18, 2026

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Traumatized: The New Politics of Public Suffering by Catherine Liu

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

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Body Double by Hanna Johansson, translated by Kira Josefsson

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Traumatized: The New Politics of Public Suffering by Catherine Liu

Verso Review by Brian Tanguay Catherine Liu doesn’t write like your typical academic. This is what I noticed first about her latest book, Traumatized, a slender volume that delivers in…

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

When The World Sleeps: Stories, Words, and Wounds of Palestine by Francesca Albanese, Translated from the Italian by Gregory Conti

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