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New: Secrets of the Killing State by Corinna Barrett Lain
“A scathing attack. Like the unsafe meat-packing practices exposed in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, this book attempts to show that practices of administering the death penalty are cruel, arbitrary, and harmful to the public.” ~Library Journal
New: How to Queer the World by Bo Ruberg
“This heady, original take on video games will most likely appeal to readers and researchers looking for inventive ways to evaluate a timely medium.” ~Booklist
New: How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic
Edited by Mara Mills, Harris Kornstein, Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp
“How To Be Disabled in a Pandemic documents the wisdom of disabled oracles who resisted and challenged the system during the first three years of the pandemic in New York City.” ~Alice Wong, author of Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life
New: Black Panther Woman by Mary Frances Phillips
“Activism grounded in love. Phillips enlarges the history of the Black Panthers by showing women’s experiences as integral to the group’s work. A revealing, well-researched biography.” ~Kirkus Reviews
From the Square
One of my favorite television shows as a young teen was a sketch comedy show called You Can’t Do That on Television. The 1980s show was silly and true to…
Read MoreYou interviewed 75 people for this book. What was that experience like? Did anything stand out to you in the interviews? Writing this book was unlike any writing experience I…
Read MoreExpanding the Literary Canon with The Library of Arabic Literature
As Arab American Heritage Month draws to a close, we encourage readers to expand their own definition of the “canon.” In history and literature courses, it can sometimes seem like…
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