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A new collection of Adrienne Rich’s poems does not show her at her best.

Shawn Francis Peters’s The Catonsville Nine.

In his new book Kill Anything That Moves, Nick Turse shows that what were often presented as isolated atrocities were in fact the norm.

Joseph Anton is a tale of betrayals: of free speech, communities, religion, marriages, personal convictions, friends.

Lucia Perillo’s On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths.

The tension between the personal and the political permeates new books on Haiti by Amy Wilentz and Jonathan M. Katz.

It’s how I came to understand that the world—and all oppression—is connected.

We can truly know only that which we have made: human history.