![]() ![]() A couple of fledgling bird enthusiasts evolve into ambitious eco-terrorists, and we’re forced to ask: Why do people espouse agendas? Why do they get radicalized?” “Hints at a few common trappings of a melodrama, but the plot quickly thickens to become something much bigger and more threatening. ![]() It was Quentin who taught me first and best that ‘academic’ work could be so profoundly moving and meaningful.” “Once you make it through Benjy’s bewildering, impressionistic narrative, his brother Quentin’s hits like a thunderclap: intensely intimate, lyrical, layered, haunted. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner Melanie Benson Taylor, Native American Studies We owe it to ourselves, as a nation, to look in the mirror and swallow hard as we confront the realities that Coates reveals.” Breathtaking in its poetic, efficient style that won’t let the reader rest, even for a sentence. “Breathtaking in its raw portrayal of what it means-to the psyche, to the body-to be a black man in America today. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates ![]()
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