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“In his new book, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America, John McWhorter demonstrates that there is far more Martin Luther than Martin Luther King in today’s anti-racist movement.” https://t.co/Pny1xu4Oq4

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It cannot have escaped your notice that the best-selling book series of recent years was E. L. James’s Fifty Shades of Grey https://t.co/5RL7GoNOEd

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Jennifer Raff’s ‘Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas’—A Review | @eweissunburied https://t.co/UkoQyZLOI5

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A World of Waste, Stripped of Transcendence: James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ at 100 | @JaredMPollen https://t.co/JfbzKuRV3n

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In The Hidden Spring, South African psychoanalyst Mark Solms offers a solution to the hard problem of consciousness that is grounded in neuroscience and physics and expressible in mathematics and information theory. https://t.co/hd43AxAdf0 https://t.co/Zf30cmJcTF

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"Brooks traces the remarkable history of success addiction/workaholism. Churchill had his “black dog”... Lincoln battled his “melancholy.” Saint Augustine acknowledged his craving for the attention of others in his book Confessions." https://t.co/IUMHY9HwQx

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Read an excerpt of Leah McClaren's memoir Where You End and I Begin, which explores the unconventionally intimate relationship she shared with her mother—a brilliant and charismatic woman haunted by past trauma. https://t.co/bSH2VMVvVD

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For whatever reason, a long and, yes, honourable tradition of martial verse, from Homer’s Iliad through to Kipling’s barrack room ballads, ended in 1914–18, writes @TheSimonEvans https://t.co/ZY7iCjHLIH

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“It might seem odd to recommend a thriller by a British author as a source of information about the ancient enmity between Russia and the Ukraine, but Frederick Forsyth is no ordinary novelist and his books are not ordinary novels.” https://t.co/gyiaSM70Dl

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"Richard’s scientific instincts were a throwback to a time when science was a public adventure, evoked by the kind of characters that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created in books such as The Lost World." https://t.co/skmDkTy39s