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"The Hard Path to Unity is an unsparing and timely indictment of the ascendant left that all liberals would do well to read—and heed." @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social reviews Barney Frank's THE HARD PATH TO UNITY.
Barney Frank’s Last Harsh Warning to the Left
The late congressman’s posthumous book condemns dogmatic insistence on unpopular ideas and offers a roadmap for reconciliation.
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NYC! 🌟 Tomorrow Sept. 24, NYU is hosting a Paule Marshall Tribute reading, hosted by Mary Helen Washington. RSVP and details here:
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What is “soul” and how has it shaped Black life and culture across generations?
📚 Out Now: WORTH THE RISK by Allison Schrager (@allisonschrager)
NYC! ✨ Come join author Benoît Loiseau for three upcoming events in accordance with his upcoming book: THE DEATH OF THE CLINIC.
Dan Piepenbring recommends Owen Davies's new book, Art of Divination, in Harper's: "Davies’s detached, unflappable tone produces some marvelously forthright sentences. I got hooked." #artbooks #fortune-telling #divination
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"The World’s Only Real Hope of Maintaining Order" An excerpt from BRINGING ORDER TO ANARCHY is featured on @ForeignPolicy
The World’s Only Real Hope of Maintaining Order
A proposal for a new international system that is at once centralized and regionalized.
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STREAMS: AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE by Patrick Lynch is now available. 🍂 This guide to streams and smaller rivers contains extraordinary graphic inventories of many of the most common plants and animals thriving in and along these overlooked waterways.
"Vila-Matas . . . charms with this speculative tale about an experiment in cultivating a literary sensibility. . . . It’s a delight for bibliophiles." @PublishersWkly reviews CAMERA OBSCURA
Camera Obscura by Enrique Vila-Matas
Vila-Matas (Bartleby & Co.) charms with this speculative tale about an experiment in cultivating a literary sensibility. After a...
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The first modern biography of Aristotle—student of Plato, tutor to Alexander, and architect of ideas still studied around the world 📚
This 10/7 event--sure to be fascinating!--will explore the themes and ideas in the book What Was America?: Art, Culture and Politics in the Bicentennial Era by Elise Armani and Katy Siegel. Free, but you must register: https://bit.ly/4g8kLqC #arthistory #bicentennial
What Was America? Art, Culture, and Politics in the Bicentennial Era
Where is art going, who is it for, and what can it tell us about our world? To think these questions through, we might begin by looking back
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THE EMANCIPATIONISTS is the first book to explore the nineteenth-century political movement led by Jewish leaders seeking equality—a movement that historian David Sorkin calls emancipation politics.
"A pleasure to read. . . . A Treacherous Secret Agent is both a political history and a work of advocacy for the relevance of literature and the performing arts to that history." A TREACHEROUS SECRET AGENT is reviewed by @worldlittoday.bsky.social.
In his final book, former Congressman Barney Frank offers a timely analysis of a strategic path toward reclaiming a just and democratic future by decreasing economic inequality and addressing social problems.
"Merry Wiesner-Hanks presents us with an impressively wide array of women who lived through, engaged in, and responded to religious change from roughly the later Middle Ages through the Enlightenment." WOMEN AND THE REFORMATION is reviewed by Journal of Modern History.
"Whether he’s demystifying the vascular system of the starfish or the segmentation of worms’ bodies, [Dawkins's] enthusiasm for the subject is palpable." — @AARP on Richard Dawkins upcoming book 42 TALES FROM LIFE.
Fall 2026 Books Preview: 41 Top Reads
The latest literary fiction, tense mysteries, celebrity memoirs and much more
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"Sorkin successfully makes the case that a significant number of Jewish maskilim . . . went above and beyond merely benefiting from the modernization that offered rights of citizenship" —Moment Magazine reviews THE EMANCIPATIONISTS.
Book Review | For Jews, a Jagged Line to Citizenship
Jews achieved rights of citizenship, then sometimes saw those rights withdrawn or limited, then sometimes saw them restored.
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Medea has appeared in countless works of art—plays, musicals, ballets, paintings, and novels—but, who is she really? Edith Hall explores the possibility that Medea, mythology's archetypal murderous mother, could be based on a historical figure who migrated to Greece in the late Bronze Age.
Meet Artemisia of Halicarnassus: queen, warrior, and naval commander who defied the stereotypes of what a woman in the ancient Greek world was supposed to be.
An excerpt from Queen, Warrior, Captain: The Story of Artemesia of Halicarnassus - Yale University Press
Queen Artemesia challenges the long-held stereotype that ancient Greek women were confined to the home and excluded from public life.
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Lafayette's return two centuries ago showed the tension between America's ideals and its realities as a young country. Brookhiser writes, "Lafayette embodied the 'fragile promise of a better world to come.'” THE HERO RETURNS is reviewed by @wsj.com
‘The Hero Returns’ Review: Lafayette’s Grand Tour of America
The crowds that gathered to welcome him often waited all day, sometimes several days, for his arrival. Yet crowds were always there to greet him.
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We are pleased to announce that Mo Holmes has won the 2026 Yale Drama Series Prize for her play AMANDA, selected by Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.
Utopias can help us imagine what’s possible. But to build a more inclusive future, we may first need to recognize that every vision of the “good life” is partial—and worth questioning. UTOPIA FOR OUR CENTURY is reviewed by Political Theology Network.
Missionizing Utopia | Political Theology Network
The catholicity of dreams makes them powerful but politically ambivalent. In my mind, the dreams of utopian Christianity are no different.
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What do the Dead Sea Scrolls really prove? Often presented as proof of biblical truth or accuracy, the Scrolls reveal something much more fascinating: the diversity of early Jewish texts, traditions, and beliefs—and the stories we’ve constructed around their discovery.
What do the Dead Sea Scrolls really prove? Forgers, smugglers, and the myth of discovery - Yale University Press
The Dead Sea Scrolls are usually presented as proof of the Bible's truth or accuracy, but their real significance is more complicated.
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"It’s One of Our Greatest and Most Controversial Novels. How Should It Be Taught?" Author Shelley Fishkin of JIM: THE LIFE AND AFTERLIVES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN'S COMRADE is featured in @nytimes.com
It’s One of Our Greatest and Most Controversial Novels. How Should It Be Taught?
I traveled around the country to find out if “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” still has a place in the classroom.
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Looking to expand your political science #TBR? From foreign to economic policy, political speech, infrastructure, governance—explore our political titles and save while you do!
This Labor Day, remember that protest wasn’t always something we did on a Saturday. For much of American history, strikes, marches, and demonstrations were inseparable from the workplace.
Witold Rybczynski's new book, What Architecture Is, "offers an immersive, insightful, and opinionated reflection on historical and modern architecture and urban planning." https://artsfuse.org/332127/september-short-fuses-materia-critica-6/ #architecture #architecturebooks #architecturalhistory
September Short Fuses — Materia Critica - The Arts Fuse
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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The tragic story of MEDEA by Edith Hall is reviewed by Fairer Disputations. "The story Hall has assembled from the pastiche of ancient sources is gripping, reading like a good novel."—Nadya Williams
Medea: Mistress, Mother, Murderer - Fairer Disputations
In 431 BC, Athenian audiences attending the annual drama festival probably expected the plays to revolve around the usual retellings of myths about the Trojan War and the heroic age. Instead, they were treated to a performance of a very different tale. One of the tragedies that debuted that year told the story of a […]
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Jean Toomer’s "Cane" became a defining work of the Harlem Renaissance, but Toomer himself resisted being defined by the movement—or by the racial categories of his time. In this Q&A, biographer George Hutchinson explores Toomer’s complex life, ideas, and enduring legacy.
Jean Toomer: A conversation with George Hutchinson - Yale University Press
Jean Toomer was the visionary author of Cane, and transformed American Literature as one of the forefront writers of the Harlem Renaissance.
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