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Adiche has become the face of the contemporary feminist movement, and this slim work is a major reason why. She examines previous failures in feminism — especially a lack of inclusion and awareness — and offers compelling ideas about what the future of the movement needs to look like. Essential reading for anyone and everyone.
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Michiko Kakutani goes well beyond the most recent manifestations of lies in politics in tracing the origins of the trend; in fact, she goes beyond politics altogether. She ties much of our current discourse on “alternative facts” to the academic emergence of post-modernism in the liberal arts. While these notions aren't necessarily comforting, they are, at least, enlightening.
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Trump is not the first president to battle with the press. Pulitzer Prize winner Goodwin explores Theodore Roosevelt’s “complex and sometimes contentious partnerships” with investigative journalists.
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Rebecca Solnit has become a guiding light in progressive principles and feminism. This follow-up to her incredibly influential “Men Explain Things to Me” further examines the ways that misogyny and gender continue to impact the world in ways big and small.
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As wildfires rage across California, this absorbing — and suspenseful — account of a fire lookout’s time in remote New Mexico offers an insightful, lyrical look at forest fire-fighting policies.
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As US tension with Iran heats up, this journalist’s account of the CIA backed coup that overthrew the Iranian prime minister in 1953 sheds light on how the attack’s aftershocks continue to rattle relations today.
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