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Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II

Viking Adult, 2021

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Masterly. An epic story of four Japanese-American families and their sons who volunteered for military service and displayed uncommon heroism… Propulsive and gripping, in part because of Mr. Brown’s ability to make us care deeply...

Souls under Siege: Stories of War, Plague, and Confession in Fourteenth-Century Provence

Cornell University Library, 2021

In Souls under Siege, Nicole Archambeau explores how the inhabitants of southern France made sense of the ravages of successive waves of plague, the depredations of mercenary warfare, and the violence of royal succession during the fourteenth century. Many people, she finds, understood both plague and war...

Out of the Dark Night: Essays on Decolonization

Columbia University Press, 2021

Achille Mbembe is one of the world’s most profound critics of colonialism and its consequences, a major figure in the emergence of a new wave of French critical theory. His writings examine the complexities of decolonization for African subjectivities and the possibilities emerging in its wake. In Out of the Dark Night, he...