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Readers seem less interested in the subject matter than in having their own prior opinions endorsed. But what good nonfiction needs is the integrity of an author who knows what she thinks and takes ownership of it.
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Peter Harrison's 'Some New World' is everything you might hope for in the best of academic history.
Kirsten SandersBooksThe Magpie
Nguyen's 'The Score' helps expose the ways in which an attachment to metrics reenforces bureaucracy and undercuts much of what makes life pleasurable.
Kirsten SandersBooksThe Magpie
Sometimes what we need is not a top-down technique to fix an unjust system; we need to jerry-rig a solution within the parameters of our own context.
Kirsten SandersBooksThe Magpie
Kirsten Sanders reviews two recent books by Sarah Hinlicky Wilson in the latest edition of her books column, 'The Magpie.'