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Randall Kennedy • Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word

The man who would be drawn in cartoons, mocked in gossip columns, celebrated in drawing rooms, sought out by enthusiasts – the man at the centre of a famous club of thinkers, writers, politicians, and scholars, who was generally regarded with the bemused awe and wonder owed to a celebrity intellectual – appears in the letters of his late twenties a

Henry Oliver • Second Act

The Ides of March

Mary Beard • SPQR

Apparently Perry recognized what many people in Los Angeles would learn in the years to come: the value of a man possessed.

Gary Krist • The Mirage Factory

never guessed his stature in the field

Ariel Sabar • My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq

Stagnation is the default state of man.

Anthony Raymond • Ikigai & Kaizen: The Japanese Strategy to Achieve Personal Happiness and Professional Success (How to set goals, stop procrastinating, be more productive, build good habits, focus, & thrive)

Varian Fry’s oddness was not that of a Marcel Duchamp. It was that of an Ezekiel. The real reason that no one today has heard of Varian Fry is because the gift he had is not one that we value.