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    We Should All Be Feminists: A Guided Journal is, really, a course about the world, as it is, as it has been, as it could be if we would finally see clearly the extent of the damage that pa

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    Courtney Milan’s latest novel Unveiled demonstrates why she is the author to watch in historical romance.

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    Professor Scott Galloway, who could perhaps be described as a celebrity businessman in a non-derogatory sense, has put together a book that essentially places provocative bets on what the post-pand

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    “. . . helps us to understand how we got here.”

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    “If you know you’re going to be around to see it, you look at the fate of the world differently.”

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    America’s favorite sport is football. Although some can remember when baseball was the national pastime, America’s sports consciousness has migrated to the gridiron.

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    Generational literature, by definition, runs the risk of a limited audience and a short shelf life.

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    The author of The Ethical Leader, Morgen Witzel, knows his audience, or at least knows the resistance his audience will have to the book he wants them to read. His opening:

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    Journalist and comedian Caitlin Moran wrote her bestselling How to Be a Woman in 2011 and has since been facing, and by her own admission, ignoring the question posed by many of her (usual

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    “. . . a potboiler of a thing, something that would have, during the studio era, been the stuff of a B picture.”

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    “For anyone contemplating visiting or living in The Netherlands, In the City of Bikes is a must read.”

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    “Readers seeking a sterile understanding of profanity with all the lewdness and bawdiness sanitized away and air-brushed out will likely find Nasty Words beyond their comfort zone.

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    “The most disturbing part of this story is how close it could be to reality.

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    “. . . [a] mean machine of a novel . . . an instant classic.”

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    “What is missing from Doublespeak, what would have made it worthwhile today, would be a reworking to compare doublespeak . . . from the 1980s to today.”

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    “In True Believer, Traub traces not just Hubert Humphrey’s life but the rise and fall of mid-20th century liberalism with all of its courage, promise, triumphs, contradictions, com