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Voices of the People: 5 Books That Expand Our Ideas of Oral History
I became interested in oral history after encountering Studs Terkel’s Working and the early works of Svetlana Alexievich and even Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives, which could be read as the most...
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Revisiting Svetlana Alexievich’s The Unwomanly Face of War During Russia’s...
Welcome to Lit Century: 100 Years, 100 Books. Combining literary analysis with an in-depth look at historical context, host Catherine Nichols chooses one book for each year of the 20th century,...
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Mirinae Lee on Learning How to Write About War
To have your work compared to a monumental literary title is always an honor and a burden to a writer. My debut novel, 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster is often described as a historical novel...
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Why We Need a Women’s History of the Roman Empire
There is a story from the 1970s often told by Roman historians of gender. It goes like this: students at an American college approached their male professor, a revered Roman historian, to request a...
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American Nightmare: Alice Driver on the Immigrants Who Risked Their Lives at...
“Nothing is more American than meatpacking,” writes Alice Driver early in her new book Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company. As she then...
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Invasions, Empires, Political Bromances: Five Nonfiction Books That Explain...
Shortly before my first business trip to Nigeria, I asked a group of colleagues—all learned West Africa analysts—to recommend a few books that would familiarize me with the powerhouse African nation....
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