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New Books: March 2022

Education

Diversity regimes : why talk is not enough to fix racial inequality at universities / James M. Thomas.

Race, sports, and education : improving opportunities and outcomes for black male college athletes / John N. Singer.

Fine Arts

1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir / Ai Weiwei ; translated by Allan H. Barr.

Dvořák's prophecy : and the vexed fate of Black classical music / Joseph Horowitz ; [foreword by George Shirley].

History

Colonialism in global perspective / Kris Manjapra.

The false cause : fraud, fabrication, and white supremacy in Confederate memory / Adam H. Domby.

The ground breaking : an American city and its search for justice / Scott Ellsworth.

Liberty is sweet : the hidden history of the American Revolution / Woody Holton.

People love dead Jews : reports from a haunted present / Dara Horn.

The shattering : America in the 1960s / Kevin Boyle.

The rise and fall of Osama bin Laden / Peter Bergen.

Robert E. Lee : a life / Allen C. Guelzo.

Language and Literature

Joan Didion : the 1980s & 90s : Salvador ; Democracy ; Miami ; After Henry ; The last thing he wanted / Joan Didion ; David L. Ulin, editor.

Molière : the complete Richard Wilbur translations, 2 volumes.

Mothers, fathers, and others : essays / Siri Hustvedt.

Perfect black / Crystal Wilkinson ; illustrated by Ronald W. Davis ; foreword by Nikky Finney.

Pushcart prize XLVI : best of the small presses 2022 / edited by Bill Henderson, with the Pushcart Prize editors.

Read until you understand : the profound wisdom of Black life and literature / Farah Jasmine Griffin.

Re-enchanted : the rise of children's fantasy literature in the twentieth century / Maria Sachiko Cecire.

Square haunting : five lives in London between the wars / Francesca Wade.

Two-way mirror : the life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning / Fiona Sampson.

Nursing

Beyond medicine : why European social democracies enjoy better health outcomes than the United States / Paul V. Dutton.

Unwell women : misdiagnosis and myth in a man-made world / Elinor Cleghorn.

Religion and Philosophy

Atheism : a very short introduction / Julian Baggini.

Called to reconciliation : how the church can model justice, diversity, and inclusion / Jonathan C. Augustine ; foreword by William H. Millimon ; afterword by Michael B. Curry.

Faith in American public life / Melissa Rogers ; foreword by E. J. Dionne Jr.

The four horsemen : the conversation that sparked an atheist revolution / Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett ; foreword by Stephen Fry.

God is not great : how religion poisons everything / Christopher Hitchens.

The saint and the atheist : Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre / Joseph S. Catalano.

Seven types of atheism / John Gray.

The varieties of nonreligious experience : atheism in American culture / Jerome P. Baggett.

Social Sciences

Children under fire : an American crisis / John Woodrow Cox.

The devil you know : a Black power manifesto / Charles M. Blow.

Everybody : a book about freedom / Olivia Laing.

I like to watch : arguing my way through the TV revolution / Emily Nussbaum.

Noise : a flaw in human judgment / Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein.

Political cyberbullying : perpetrators and targets of a new digital aggression / Sheri Bauman.

Slaves among us : the hidden world of human trafficking / Monique Villa.

What white people can do next : from allyship to coalition / Emma Dabiri.

Social Work

Disability visibility : first-person stories from the Twenty-first century / edited by Alice Wong.

Curriculum

Ancestor approved : intertribal stories for kids / edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith.

Annals of the Western Shore : Gifts : Voices : Powers / Ursula K. Le Guin ; Brian Attebery, editor.

The Black kids / Christina Hammonds Reed.

Youth to power : your voice and how to use it / Jamie Margolin.

Fiction

Bewilderment : a novel / Richard Powers.

The book of Essie / Meghan MacLean Weir.

Cloud cuckoo land : a novel / Anthony Doerr.

Crossroads / Jonathan Franzen.

Harlem shuffle / Colson Whitehead.

Jean Stafford : complete stories & other writings / Kathryn Davis, editor.

The man who lived underground : a novel / Richard Wright ; afterword by Malcolm Wright.

My struggle, book one / Karl Ove Knausgaard ; translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett.

Shirley Jackson : four novels of the 1940s & 50s : The road through the wall ; Hangsaman ; The bird's nest ; The sundial / Ruth Franklin, editor.

Telephone : a novel / Percival Everett.