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Not Humane, Just Invisible: A Counternarrative to Samuel Moyn’s “Humane”
Priya Satia reviews Samuel Moyn’s latest book, “Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War.”...
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Skye C. Cleary reviews Myisha Cherry’s new book, “The Case for Rage: Why Anger Is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle.”...
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“L.A.’s a Strange Place”: On Judith Freeman’s “MacArthur Park”
A new novel set in Los Angeles chronicles a tenacious friendship and a deteriorating neighborhood....
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Robert Zaretsky admires the aesthetic and moral clarity of Laura Marris’s new translation of Camus’s “The Plague.”...
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