According to Jenn Shapland, the problem with biographies of authors is that they fix the author in time and place. Layering on the biographer’s understanding of the author’s body of […]
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Why Being ‘Not Racist’ Is Not Enough
And how we can be better
How to Be an Antiracist By Ibram X. Kendi One World/Penguin Random House: 2019 “There is no neutrality in racism.” That point is central to Ibram X. Kendi’s proposals in […]
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Thanksgivings Every Day
Braiding Sweetgrass By Robin Wall Kimmerer Milkweed Editions: 2015 In Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, author Robin Wall Kimmerer asks readers to “imagine raising […]
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A Healing Secret
Social infrastructure as a remedy for what ails us
Palaces for the People: How social infrastructure can help fight inequality, polarization, and the decline of civic life. Eric Klinenberg New York: Crown, 2018 I have often said that the […]
