Search Results: this is how you lose her

  • Portrait of Eric Foner
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    Eric Foner

    …that animated the Civil War and Reconstruction and that have carried through to the present. Throughout his life, he has paid close scholarly attention to African American voices and questions…

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    Random Family

    Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

    …emergency rooms, prisons and courtrooms. LeBlanc’s close listening produced this extraordinary book, a rare look at the world from the subjects’ point of view. Readers learn that prison is just…

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    Cuyahoga County Public Library: Author Richard Kopley 

    September 24 – September 24, 2026

    …that dogged his existence—with close readings of his work that focus not only on plot, character, and theme but also on language, allusion, and structure in a way that enhances…

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    Half of a Yellow Sun

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    …Eastern Connecticut State University. While in Connecticut, she stayed with her sister Igeoma, who runs a medical practice close to the university. Chimamanda graduated summa cum laude from Eastern in…

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    The Association of Small Bombs

    Karan Mahajan

    …and took close to 3,000 lives. The second event triggered Mahajan’s memories of the first, a largely forgotten attack at the Lajpat Nagar market, where Mahajan’s grandmother had been shopping…

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    Ake

    Wole Soyinka

    …in the mid-1990s led to a close government scrutiny of all his activities. The government’s repression forced him into exile from 1994 until 1998, when democratic reforms began in Nigeria…

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    The Old Drift

    Namwali Serpell

    …British photographer reverberates across three generations and 566 pages. Towering close by is the natural wonder dubbed “Victoria Falls” by David Livingstone, but called Mosi-oa-Tunya or “The Smoke That Thunders” for…

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    Simple Takes a Wife

    Langston Hughes

    …of a close-knit black community, and he was always encouraged to read. As a teenager, Hughes lived with his mother in Lincoln, Illinois, and Cleveland, Ohio. In Cleveland, he contributed…

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    Half American

    Matthew F. Delmont

    …check cargo into the port. He made close friends with a French family. “It was the first time in his life that white people had treated him as a full…

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    Negro Politicians

    Harold F. Gosnell

    Harold Foote Gosnell was a student and close associate of the politician and political scientist Charles E. Merriam. As a professor in the University of Chicago’s Department of Political Science,…

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    Memorial Drive

    Natasha Trethewey

    …arc of the sun west toward home. For several miles we’d drive like that: so close we seemed conjoined, and I could feel her heart beating against me if as…

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    Sing, Unburied, Sing

    Jesmyn Ward

    …at the University of South Alabama, then Tulane University. “The word ‘salvage’ is so close to ‘savage,’” Ward said in 2014 at the Cleveland Public Library. “It connotes resilience, fierceness…

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    The Jews Among the Nations

    Erich Kahler

    The chapters in this book deal with persistent problems of Jewish identity. Kahler claims these can be fully understood only by awareness of the close interconnection between the singular ethnic…

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    The Lost Cities of Africa

    Basil Davidson

    …in the group that included his contemporaries and fellow historians, Christopher Hill, Eric Hobsbawm and E.P. Thompson (a close friend of Davidson for many years). These men’s committed, left-wing approach…

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    The Trees

    Percival Everett

    …at Bookforum. “Someone who’s now a friend, a very close friend, when he saw my name – he’s kind of a prickly guy – said out loud to the office…