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Cannibalism
By Bill Schutt
An erudite, surprisingly witty account of who eats whom — and why.
Don’t buy into the gloom and doom, the author argues. Things are better than they’ve ever been.
So You Want to Talk About Race
By Ijeoma Oluo
An intelligent, accessible treatise on a difficult topic
Genealogically speaking, everyone's a mongrel.
American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
By Monica Hesse
This exploration of the haunted, burning heart of rural America leaves much unsaid about its soul.
Sacrifice: My Life in a Fascist Militia
By Alessandro Orsini; translated by Sarah Jane Nodes
An Italian sociologist goes undercover to infiltrate a militant hate group.
The Origins of Cool in Postwar America
By Joel Dinerstein
How an expression — and a slick way of being — was born.
Anatomy of Innocence: Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted
Edited by Laura Caldwell and Leslie S. Klinger
A collection of moving — and true — exoneration stories.
