David Marcus Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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"Our courts and criminal justice system have always been 'haunted by the 'ghost' of the innocent person wrongly convicted. But this is not some 'unreal dream'—it is a very real nightmare." Jed Rakoff in @BooksandtheArts on Daniel Medwed's Barred https://t.co/Dr638BeMt7

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"Through her characters, Rooney strides into the arena in full debate-champ regalia, penning mini-essays about identity politics, extractive capitalism, Catholicism, climate change...and Late Bronze Age collapse." @tonytula in Fall Books https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/sally-rooney-beautiful-world-where-are-you/

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RT @thenation: In form and in content, 'Palmares' aspires to do what Gayl Jones’s early works of fiction did but also much more as well. ht…

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"Some have called abolitionism a single-issue politics; others, a utopian one. But abolition is better understood, Purnell argues, as a wide-ranging politics." @mathuclair in @BooksandtheArts on Derecka Purnell's Becoming Abolitionists https://t.co/8sr5d5gknB

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"There is Hollywood, there are lights, but only the rich are allowed to enjoy them." @APockros in @BooksandtheArts on Nell Zink's California and the struggle to make art in a state that mostly turns it into a commodity https://t.co/twFMTV7ttg

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"Dunn’s books are often described as cult classics, which fits not only in the sense that they inspire devotion but also in the sense that cults of personality appear in them" @NCaplanBricker in @BooksandtheArts on Katherine Dunn's countercultural parables https://t.co/2Y6UaMigfH

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RT @JenLouiseWilson: For @thenation I reviewed Maggie Nelson's On Freedom, a fearful, reductive book that takes our conversations about lib…

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"In Stella Maris and The Passenger, McCarthy invites us to consider hopelessness not just to give us hope but to compel us to make use of it." @MedinaMora in @BooksandtheArts on McCarthy's late style but also what's lost in our obsession with debut novels https://t.co/iZHbcM5TRb

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"Holocaust literature at its core is inevitably Eurocentric, yet when seen globally, its geographic scope is stunning." @IlanStavans on Santiago Amigorena's novel The Ghetto Within and Shoah in Latin American literature https://t.co/j0f1wyEfiz

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RT @daniel_dsj2110: 25th anniversary edition of the late Charles Mills seminal book, The Racial Contract, due out in April. Includes new pr…

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