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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
The Know-It-All
The Elements of Style
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
American Zion: A New History of Mormonism
Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal
The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Animal Farm
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
The Origins of Totalitarianism
The Secret History
Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity
Will in the World by Stephen GreenblattShakespeare by Bill BrysonA Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James ShapiroShakespeare by Harold BloomShakespeare After All by Marjorie Garber
Best Books About Shakespeare
262 books — 167 voters

Chime by Franny BillingsleyDeath and Resurrection by R.A. MacAvoyHide Me Among the Graves by Tim PowersThe Folk Keeper by Franny BillingsleyThe Drowning Girl by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Mythcon 44 Reading List
34 books — 3 voters
Toni Morrison and the Queer Pleasure of Ghosts by Juda BennettFiction And Folklore by Trudier HarrisJames Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and the Rhetorics of Black Male... by Aaron Ngozi OforleaBridging the Americas by Stelamaris CoserMagical Realism in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Ana Castillo's... by Jasmina Murad
Examinations of Black Literature
6 books — 1 voter

#SayHerName by Kimberlé CrenshawFracking by Kathryn   Hulick#SayHerName by Kimberlé CrenshawThe War on Poverty by Carolee LaineThe Syrian Conflict by Michael Capek
Special Reports series
44 books — 8 voters

Iain Pears
Politics bores you?" Bronsen said. Julien smiled. "It does. Apologies, sir, and it is not that I haven't tried to be fascinated. But careful and meticulous research has suggested the hypothesis that all politicians are liars, fools, and tricksters, and I have as yet come across no evidence to the contrary. They can do great damage, and rarely any good. It is the job of the sensible man to try and protect civilization from their depradations. ...more
Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio

Chaim Potok
I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship of tradition. In secular scholarship there are no boundaries and no permanently fixed views.” Lurie, if the Torah cannot go out into your world of scholarship and return stronger, then we are all fools and charlatans. I have faith in the Torah. I am not afraid of truth.
Chaim Potok, In the Beginning

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