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Happy Birthday Andrea Dworkin! A Timeline of Dworkin's Life and Work
By: emily
September 26, 2020

One of the most controversial and iconoclastic feminists of the twentieth century, Andrea Dworkin was born on this day in 1946.

Author Spotlight: A Conversation with Lawrence Rosenthal
By: Anonymous
September 15, 2020

In 2016, American right-wing populists migrated from the free marketeering Tea Party to Donald Trump’s “hard hat,” anti-immigrant, America-First . . .

8 Books to Read for National Translation Month
By: publicity
September 8, 2020

September is National Translation Month, a month to . . .

12 Books Every Worker in America Should Read for Labor Day
By: publicity
September 1, 2020

The first Labor Day parade took place in New York City on September 5th, 1882 as a demonstration for worker’s rights.

8 Books on the Past, Present, and Future of Higher Education in the United States
By: Derek
August 20, 2020

When most Americans think of college, they conjure pre-pandemic images of young adults fresh out of high school strolling across bucolic . . .

The Horror of Sundown Towns in HBO's "Lovecraft Country"
By: publicity
August 20, 2020

The first episode of “Lovecraft Country,” a new sci-fi/horror series from Jordan Peele, Misha Green, and J.J.

Two Books Behind Nice White Parents
By: Derek
August 18, 2020

This summer the New York Times and Serial released . . .

Author Spotlight: A Conversation with Ellis Cose
By: Derek
August 17, 2020

In the newly published Democracy, If We Can Keep It: The ACLU’s 100-Year . . .

11 Books to Understand the 2020 Presidential Election
By: publicity
August 7, 2020

The 2020 presidential election is rapidly approaching, and it holds the potential for a monumental reckoning of American democracy.

Author Events Replay
By: Derek
July 16, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has turned our day to day lives upside down. The world of books has been no exception.

Read an Excerpt from The Beginning or the End
By: Derek
July 10, 2020

Award-winning author Greg Mitchell's new book, The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood . . .

Book Giveaway! The Beginning or the End by Greg Mitchell
By: Derek
July 6, 2020

This week we're celebrating the publication of Greg Mitchell's new book, The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood—and America—Learned to Stop . . .

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