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Garret Keizer • The Enigma of Anger: Essays on a Sometimes Deadly Sin

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

Crystallizing Public Opinion

Rich Cohen • The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King

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Mark Bergen • Like, Comment, Subscribe

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Rumaan Alam • Leave the World Behind

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The 30 best fiction books of the last 30 years

A quixotic intellectual troubadour, he has prosecuted a series of discrete visions united only by a potent sense of curiosity and a provocative optimism.

John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand

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Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past

Enshiu derided his own taste as too mainstream to be truly great. Yet catering to “the taste of the majority” might be the single goal of…

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