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    Book Discussion: Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls, Led by Dr. Valentino Zullo

    September 10, 2025, 1:00 pm

    …of the 1949 Communist victory. After fleeing to Hong Kong, she wrote a bestselling memoir about her persecution and survival―then promptly had a mental breakdown from which she never recovered….

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    The Plague of Doves

    Louise Erdrich

    …an Indian reservation near Pluto in the 1960s and 70s and forms two fateful adolescent crushes: one on bad-boy schoolmate Corwin Peace and one on a nun. Though Evelina doesn’t…

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    A History of the Jews

    Abram L. Sachar

    This authoritative and beautifully written book, by the distinguished president of Brandeis University, was first published in 1930 and now appears in its fifth edition, completely revised and enlarged. As…

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    Deaf Republic

    Ilya Kaminsky

    …Aid and the National Immigration Law Center. More recently, he worked pro-bono as the Court Appointed Special Advocate for orphaned children in Southern California. When Kaminsky was in his mid-20s,…

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    W.E.B. Du Bois

    David Levering Lewis

    …Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 (Henry Holt and Co, 1993), which won the Pulitzer, Parkman and Bancroft prizes, in addition to the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for non-fiction in 1994….

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    Mouroir

    Breyten Breytenbach

    …and mirage, through passages between death and life, darkness and light, oppression and flight, sense and the sensed. Mouroir. An outspoken human rights activist, Breyten Breytenbach is a poet, novelist,…

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    Heaven

    Rowan Ricardo Phillips

    …an affinity for languages, and has won a Whiting award, a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation grant and a Pen/Joyce Osterweil prize. Educated at Swarthmore College and Brown University, Phillips is…

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    Manchild in the Promised Land

    Claude Brown

    …narratives of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs and influencing a new generation of African American writers. Brown’s description of American urban life, as relayed through his experiences growing up in…

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    Thrity Umrigar in conversation with Karan Mahajan

    October 4, 2023, 7:00 pm

    …the Jeannette Haien Ballard Writer’s Prize given annually to “a young writer of proven excellence in poetry or prose.” Karan’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review…

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    Burnt Shadows

    Kamila Shamsie

    …short-story writer. Born and raised in Karachi, Shamsie studied creative writing at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y. and earned an MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. At UMass,…

  • Portrait of William Julius Wilson
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    William Julius Wilson

    …Burton Gordon Feldman Award (“for outstanding contributions in the field of public policy”) Brandeis University; the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Award (granted by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Los…

  • Portrait of Lucille Clifton
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    Lucille Clifton

    …Jacob (1980); and the death of his father in Everett Anderson’s Goodbye (1983). Clifton’s writing is steeped in the rich oral tradition of the griot—the African storyteller. Through verse Clifton…

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    The Science and Politics of Racial Research

    William H. Tucker

    …Racism. He has written critical commentaries on several hereditarian psychologists known for their controversial work on race and intelligence. He has received awards for his research on Cyril Burt and…

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    Alive at the End of the World

    Saeed Jones

    …the relentless and expensive anxiety of New York City,” Jones wrote in an essay for Werk-in-Progress. On a 2018 visit to Columbus, Jones noted its striking gay culture, its cadre…

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    The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture

    David Brion Davis

    …religious and philosophical doctrines that gave it the highest sanction. The contradiction of slavery grew more profound when it became closely linked with American colonization, which had as its basic…

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    W.E.B. Du Bois

    David Levering Lewis

    …Race, 1868-1919(Henry Holt and Co, 1993), which won the Pulitzer, Parkman and Bancroft prizes, in addition to the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for non-fiction in 1994. Contributed by Marcia L. Bryant…

  • Portrait of Arnold Rampersad
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    Arnold Rampersad

    …an education in literature that some people might dismiss as ‘colonial,’ ” he said. “It nevertheless served me well in dealing with the complexities of American biography.” His award-winning biographies…

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    The Black Image in the White Mind

    George M. Fredrickson

    …Pulitzer Prize runner-up. A graduate of Harvard University (BA 1956, PhD 1964), Fredrickson served in he U.S. Navy from 1957 to 1960 and taught at Northwestern University from 1966 to…

  • Cover of Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner
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    Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner

    F.X. Toole

    …of boxing and its inhabitants. Born in Long Beach, California, Toole’s personal saga was no less extraordinary than those of his protagonists. The Irish-American theater major studied acting while stationed…

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    Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

    David Eltis

    …more than 200 maps. The atlas has won a series of prizes, including the 2010 R.R. Hawkins Award, given by the Association of American Publishers. Eltis is Robert W. Woodruff…