Category - Literary Criticism
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How to Survive America
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"Dispels the myth that people of color are somehow predisposed to poor health, blaming systemic injustice in the health care system." --New York Ti...
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Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arming read...
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The Call of the Tribe
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The intellectual autobiography of Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.From its origins, the liberal doctrine has represen...
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Radical Insurgencies
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Radical Insurgencies draws and translates wisdom from Africology, history, sociology, and philosophy to stitch together various social and politica...
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Radio Active: A Memoir of Advocacy in Action, on the Air and in the Streets
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Radio Active tells the story of Joe's decades of activism, from his childhood in a segregated neighborhood in Dayton, Ohio, to interviewing Barack ...
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You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We're All in This Together
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /What happens when we can’t joke about some of the most important stuff in life? In a 2019 study, 40% of people reported censoring themselves out ...
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William S. Burroughs' "The Revised Boy Scout Manual": An Electronic Revolution
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Before the era of fake news and anti-fascists, William S. Burroughs wrote about preparing for revolution and confronting institutionalized power....
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Two Cheers for Democracy
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Essays that applaud democracy's toleration of individual freedom and self-criticism and deplore its encouragement of mediocrity: "We may still cont...
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The Liberal Redneck Manifesto: Draggin' Dixie Outta the Dark
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Liberal Rednecks—a Southern-based stand-up comedy group known for their scathing political satire—celebrate all that’s good about Dixie while...
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A Certain Justice: Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination
PaperbackOriginal price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /A much-needed account of the hierarchy of justice that defines China's unique political-legal culture. To many outsiders, China has an image as a ...
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The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy “Spare, elegant and poignant. . . . If ...
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Everything Reminds Me of Something: Advice, Answers...But No Apologies
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /As seen on Hannity! The bestselling comedian returns to respond and rant on real questions about life and love, careers and cars, and everything el...
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All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfuln...
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A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /"We should welcome the context Kundera gives for the struggles between Russia and Europe, and the plight of those caught between them. His defense ...
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American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /An incisive critique that examines the origins of contemporary American ideas about surveillance, terrorism, and white supremacyFor more than thr...
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Why Orwell Matters
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"Hitchens presents a George Orwell fit for the twenty-first century." —Boston Globe In this widely acclaimed biographical essay, the masterful po...
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Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Astute."—New York Times Ayn Rand’s complicated notoriety as popular writer, leader of a political and philosophical cult, reviled intellectual,...
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Only a Voice: Essays
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Essays on politics, power, and culture from one of America's most eminent critics In Only a Voice, George Scialabba examines the chasm between mode...
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The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy "Spare, elegant and poignant. . . . If the...
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