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Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon - Mark McGurl
Love: A History in Five Fantasies - Barbara H. Rosenwein
Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space - Fred Scharmen
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When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach - Ashlee Vance
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Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (and How We Win It Back) - Jeremy Gilbert and Alex Williams
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The Scent of the Father: Essay on the Limits of Life and Science in Sub-Saharan Africa - Valentin-Yves Mudimbe
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The Politics of Time: Imagining African Becomings - Edited by Achille Mbembe and Felwine Sarr
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To Write the Africa World - edited by Achille Mbembe and Felwine Sarr
Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life - Natasha Lennard
Radius: A Story of Feminist Revolution - Yasmin El-Rifae
Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet -- and What We Can Do About It - Nancy Fraser
Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization - David Livingstone Smith
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Humanitarian Borders: Unequal Mobility and Saving Lives - Polly Pallister-Wilkins
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Heaven in Disorder - Slavoj Zizek
We Want Everything: A Novel - Nanni Balestrini
Bad Gays: A Homosexual History - Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller
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Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World - Jonathan Crary
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The Last Neoliberal: Macron and the Origins of France’s Political Class - Bruno Amable and Stefano Palombarini
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The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution by Nils Melzer
Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature, and Feminism in Our Time - Vivian Gornick