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Jon Wiener on Enemies: A History of the FBI by Tim Weiner

“J. Edgar”

May 8th, 2012
Michael Kammen on The Voice Is All, Door Wide Open: A Beat Affair in Letters, 1957-58 and Jack Kerouac: Angelheaded Hipster by Joyce Johnson, Jack Kerouac, Joyce Johnson and Steve Turner

“Jack Kerouac’s Restless Odyssey and His New Life “On the Road””

May 9th, 2013
Eli MacKinnon on Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges

“Jailbreaking Thought: The Alan Turing Centenary ”

September 30th, 2012
Jonathan Arac on Post-Postmodernism by Jeffrey T. Nealon

“Jameson Redux: Jeffrey T. Nealon’s “Post-Postmodernism: or, The Cultural Logic of Just-in-Time Capitalism””

April 13th, 2013
Olivia Harrison on Parting Ways by Judith Butler

“Judith Butler and the Cause of the Other”

December 9th, 2012
Sara Campos on My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor

“Justice Revealed: Sonia Sotomayor’s Early Years”

April 28th, 2013

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