![]() By attending to the withheld and overlooked at the margins of the historical archive, Hartman radically reshapes our understanding of history, in a work as resonant today as it was on first publication, now for a new generation of readers. ![]() In Scenes of Subjection-Hartman’s first book, now revised and expanded-her singular talents and analytical framework turn away from the “terrible spectacle” and toward the forms of routine terror and quotidian violence characteristic of slavery, illuminating the intertwining of injury, subjugation, and selfhood even in abolitionist depictions of enslavement. Saidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers” (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and “a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy” (Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker). The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated. ![]()
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First published in 1968, Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem is a collection of essays, largely about California and published mainly within the pages of The Saturday Evening Post across the previous decade.įifty years on, what is most striking about the collection is the writing, which is vivid and alive. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Daimon” was an amazing prequel to the Covenant Series by Jennifer L. ![]() ![]() Every step that brings her closer to safety is one more step toward death… because she’s being hunted by the very creatures she’d once trained to kill. A horrifying attack forces Alex to flee Miami and try to find her way back to the very place her mother had warned her she should never return – the Covenant. 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