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Newsletter #288

November 23, 2020

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3 books featured in this issue

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Again Again

by E. Lockhart

MADE-UP

Again Again both was and wasn’t the young adult love story I expected. Adelaide’s summer can and does go a myriad of different ways, in a number of possible worlds, perhaps thanks to her introduction... (Anika)

Cover of Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

by Sudhir Hazareesingh

TRUE

Having read The Black Jacobins, C.L.R. James's still-classic 1938 account of the Haitian Revolution, earlier this year, I was curious what a modern version could add to the story. Even more than James... (Tom)

Cover of Blades of Freedom (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #10)

Blades of Freedom (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #10)

by Nathan Hale

MADE-UP

One response to the complexity of explaining the Haitian Revolution is to narrow the scope, as Hazareesingh (see above) does by focusing on Toussaint. Despite his tinier canvas and his younger audienc... (Tom)

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