Public Books Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Imani PerryPublic BooksA Travelogue. But also a treatise. Black art, Black internationalism, labor, womanhood, community. Imani Perry’s NYT bestselling SOUTH TO AMERICA (2022): https://t.co/Thxr9w5eRP
Paperback, 2023
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Chains of Love and Beauty: The Diary of Michael Field
Carolyn DeverPublic Books“And thus they stayed together—two women who were professionally one man, and who were always fascinated by alternative outlets for their desires.” Carolyn Dever on her new book, 'Chains of Love and Beauty' (2022), with @PrincetonUPress. https://t.co/83sY45mjg5
Paperback, 2025
$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Factory Summers
Guy DelislePublic BooksIn the late 1980s, during his high school and early college years, Guy Delisle worked in a pulp and paper mill outside of Montreal, before abandoning his studies for a career in animation. His new graphic novel, 'Factory Summers,' chronicles that time: https://t.co/9T3whmgHMT
Hardcover, 2021
$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
1984: 75th Anniversary
George OrwellPublic BooksAnti-vaxxers’ invocation of George Orwell's ‘1984’ and ‘Animal Farm’ reflects a long tradition of the far-right draping themselves in the laurels of the socialist. Ironically, Orwell was not only a socialist but a champion of leftist first principles. https://buff.ly/3O8TK5I
Paperback, Mass Market, 1950
$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Human Flow: Stories from the Global Refugee Crisis
Weiwei AiPublic Books“It’s not just that states do horrible things to their own people; that much is known. Ai Weiwei shatters illusions about the international system.” Jeremy Adelman reviews the dossier of interviews released in conjunction the documentary ‘Human Flow': https://t.co/eNuUXI6MvC
Paperback, 2020
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Natives of My Person
George LammingPublic BooksIn a 1972 review of ‘Natives of My Person,’ C. L. R. James stressed the loneliness underpinning George Lamming’s writing. Lamming felt that “the West Indian has no genuinely native civilization or traditional culture of his own." https://t.co/c6dN0f4xiT
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The New College Classroom
Cathy N. DavidsonPublic Books“A pedagogical treasure trove.” @DanicaSavonick reviews @CathyNDavidson and @katopodis_phd ‘s new book, “The New College Classroom” (2022) with @Harvard_Press. https://t.co/5Js8K0Hxlv
Hardcover, 2022
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Long Years
Carmen Pascal FabianPublic BooksOur latest book with Columbia University Press, ‘The Long Year,’ features some of the world’s most incisive thinkers on 2020’s buried crises, revealing how they must be confronted in order to achieve a more equal future. https://buff.ly/33I3Ysc
Hardcover, 2016
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Beowulf: A New Translation
Maria Dahvana HeadleyPublic Books20th-century translations of ‘Beowulf’—most by men—read & interpret the poem seriously. Maria Dahvana Headley’s translation does not. Read Eleanor Johnson’s review of her “verbal brutalism," a “pistol-whipping commentary on translation.” https://t.co/vFrfN9tLwu
Paperback, 2020
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Town of Babylon
Alejandro VarelaPublic Books“I borrow the shapes of things and I fill them with my creations.” Check out our new interview with @drovarela, author of “The Town of Babylon” (2022)—finalist for the National Book Award—and “The People Who Report More Stress” (2023). @astrahousebooks. https://t.co/V87ItLTkTI
Paperback, 2024
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book