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John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
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Ari Shavit • My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
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To make myself, and by proxy other Asian Americans, more human and a little more relevant to American culture.
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Yoko Tawada’s Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel , translated by Susan Bernofsky, set in post-lockdown Berlin, is an absurd, dark, dreamlike narrative that meditates on warfare, religion, memory, migration, and belonging through the strange consciousness of a literary researcher, Patrik. A Celan scholar who self-identifies as “the patient,” Pat... See more
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Bolbol had worked hard to gain the trust of his neighborhood. The details on his identity card marked him out for suspicion; for four years now, similar details had spelled catastrophe for many others. Thousands of people disappeared without a trace, simply for being born in areas controlled by the opposition, just as many regime supporters had dis
... See moreKhaled Khalifa • Death Is Hard Work
It was strictly forbidden for us to leave the reception center. So there we were—the beneficiaries of smug humanitarianism—prisoners in paradise on earth.