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“England couldn’t find—once you do away with papal dispensation—a legal foundation for war, conquest, and enslavement. And so the English conclude, maybe it is better we don’t say anything.”
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September 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
“England couldn’t find—once you do away with papal dispensation—a legal foundation for war, conquest, and enslavement. And so the English conclude, maybe it is better we don’t say anything.”
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“Crossing the border into Huehuetenango was one of those life-changing moments. I can’t put it into words, but the air was different.”
New at PB: In an interview with Alexander Aviña, Greg Grandin talks about his newest book, “America, América.”
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New at PB: In an interview with Alexander Aviña, Greg Grandin talks about his newest book, “America, América.”
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September 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
“Crossing the border into Huehuetenango was one of those life-changing moments. I can’t put it into words, but the air was different.”
New at PB: In an interview with Alexander Aviña, Greg Grandin talks about his newest book, “America, América.”
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New at PB: In an interview with Alexander Aviña, Greg Grandin talks about his newest book, “America, América.”
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New at PB: Alexander Aviña interviews Greg Grandin about Grandin’s latest book, “America, América” (@penguinpress.bsky.social), which examines the intellectual, economic, and political sources of Latin America’s social-rights tradition.
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September 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
New at PB: Alexander Aviña interviews Greg Grandin about Grandin’s latest book, “America, América” (@penguinpress.bsky.social), which examines the intellectual, economic, and political sources of Latin America’s social-rights tradition.
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“A big birthday party is coming. You will find your way to celebrate that feels right to you. No right answers. Plenty of wrong answers, but no right answers. Channel more Lizzy and less Lydia.”
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September 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
“A big birthday party is coming. You will find your way to celebrate that feels right to you. No right answers. Plenty of wrong answers, but no right answers. Channel more Lizzy and less Lydia.”
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“They all want to know which novel is your favorite. I suspect most of them don’t really want to hear the obvious answer! But I’m over that. This is my authentic answer. Pride and Prejudice!”
New at PB: @devoney.bsky.social on her new book “Wild for Austin.”
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New at PB: @devoney.bsky.social on her new book “Wild for Austin.”
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September 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
“They all want to know which novel is your favorite. I suspect most of them don’t really want to hear the obvious answer! But I’m over that. This is my authentic answer. Pride and Prejudice!”
New at PB: @devoney.bsky.social on her new book “Wild for Austin.”
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New at PB: @devoney.bsky.social on her new book “Wild for Austin.”
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New at PB: What’s your favorite Austen novel and why is it “Pride and Prejudice”?
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September 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
New at PB: What’s your favorite Austen novel and why is it “Pride and Prejudice”?
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“One of the hardest things about engaging in Austen criticism is feeling like you’re standing on the shoulders of giants. … Still, you hope you’re putting things together in ways that resonate.”
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September 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
“One of the hardest things about engaging in Austen criticism is feeling like you’re standing on the shoulders of giants. … Still, you hope you’re putting things together in ways that resonate.”
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“Researching Austen’s allegedly shoplifting aunt was a lot more fun than you might think.”
You might think you know everything Austen, but did you know about her shoplifting aunt?
New at PB: @devoney.bsky.social in conversation with @carolyndever.bsky.social.
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You might think you know everything Austen, but did you know about her shoplifting aunt?
New at PB: @devoney.bsky.social in conversation with @carolyndever.bsky.social.
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September 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
“Researching Austen’s allegedly shoplifting aunt was a lot more fun than you might think.”
You might think you know everything Austen, but did you know about her shoplifting aunt?
New at PB: @devoney.bsky.social in conversation with @carolyndever.bsky.social.
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You might think you know everything Austen, but did you know about her shoplifting aunt?
New at PB: @devoney.bsky.social in conversation with @carolyndever.bsky.social.
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New at PB: In conversation with @carolyndever.bsky.social, @devoney.bsky.social talks about her new book “Wild for Austen,” covering everything from sexuality, erotica, and love to class, moms, dads, and the power of naughtiness.
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September 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
New at PB: In conversation with @carolyndever.bsky.social, @devoney.bsky.social talks about her new book “Wild for Austen,” covering everything from sexuality, erotica, and love to class, moms, dads, and the power of naughtiness.
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“The Austen biography space is fairly saturated and covered. But there’s still a lot more we can learn by seeing her in context: that is, by seeing Austen in relation to her society, her family, her friends.”
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September 2, 2025 at 8:07 PM
“The Austen biography space is fairly saturated and covered. But there’s still a lot more we can learn by seeing her in context: that is, by seeing Austen in relation to her society, her family, her friends.”
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New at PB: @devoney.bsky.social delivers with "Wild For Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane") out today from St. Martin's Press. Read Looser's interview with @carolyndever.bsky.social.
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September 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
New at PB: @devoney.bsky.social delivers with "Wild For Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane") out today from St. Martin's Press. Read Looser's interview with @carolyndever.bsky.social.
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In a new episode of “Writing Latinos,” @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social chats with novelist Justin Torres, author of “We the Animals” (@marinerbooks.bsky.social) and “Blackouts” (@fsgbooks.bsky.social), about Jesús Colón’s “Youth: The Palisades as a Backdrop.”
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May 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
In a new episode of “Writing Latinos,” @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social chats with novelist Justin Torres, author of “We the Animals” (@marinerbooks.bsky.social) and “Blackouts” (@fsgbooks.bsky.social), about Jesús Colón’s “Youth: The Palisades as a Backdrop.”
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“Valerio-Jiménez suggests that this politics of remembering how borders changed—while people remained—crucially aided ethnic Mexicans in advancing their agendas for inclusion and civil rights across the Southwest.”
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April 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
“Valerio-Jiménez suggests that this politics of remembering how borders changed—while people remained—crucially aided ethnic Mexicans in advancing their agendas for inclusion and civil rights across the Southwest.”
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Immigrant rights advocates continue to invoke the experience of conquest in advocating for their belonging to the United States.
These invocations represented “unfulfilled promises” for Mexican Americans.
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These invocations represented “unfulfilled promises” for Mexican Americans.
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April 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Immigrant rights advocates continue to invoke the experience of conquest in advocating for their belonging to the United States.
These invocations represented “unfulfilled promises” for Mexican Americans.
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These invocations represented “unfulfilled promises” for Mexican Americans.
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During the civil rights era, Mexican Americans invoked the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to emphasize the long history of anti-Mexican oppression.
But they often omitted their role in forcibly removing Native people in far northern frontier of Mexico.
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But they often omitted their role in forcibly removing Native people in far northern frontier of Mexico.
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April 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
During the civil rights era, Mexican Americans invoked the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to emphasize the long history of anti-Mexican oppression.
But they often omitted their role in forcibly removing Native people in far northern frontier of Mexico.
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But they often omitted their role in forcibly removing Native people in far northern frontier of Mexico.
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“The legacies of conflict—and their increasingly accessible images in a global age—frame the shared bonds of trauma in keeping the memories of these conflicts alive, often through offering a human consequence to these periods of intense violence.”
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April 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
“The legacies of conflict—and their increasingly accessible images in a global age—frame the shared bonds of trauma in keeping the memories of these conflicts alive, often through offering a human consequence to these periods of intense violence.”
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Valerio-Jiménez’s new book “Remembering Conquest,” Emiliano Aguilar writes, is a timely reminder of the enduring legacies of conflict stemming from war memories.
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April 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Valerio-Jiménez’s new book “Remembering Conquest,” Emiliano Aguilar writes, is a timely reminder of the enduring legacies of conflict stemming from war memories.
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“When the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo failed to protect the rights of the Mexicans who remained on the land now under US control, subsequent generations reaped incrementally devastating consequences of disenfranchisement, dispossession, and repression.”
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April 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
“When the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo failed to protect the rights of the Mexicans who remained on the land now under US control, subsequent generations reaped incrementally devastating consequences of disenfranchisement, dispossession, and repression.”
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Season 3 of our podcast "Writing Latinos" premieres TOMORROW! Hosted by Geraldo Cadava (@geraldo-cadava.bsky.social) and featuring conversations with Lori A. Flores, Marie Arana, Nicolás Medina Mora, Jennine Capó Crucet, and more.
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March 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Season 3 of our podcast "Writing Latinos" premieres TOMORROW! Hosted by Geraldo Cadava (@geraldo-cadava.bsky.social) and featuring conversations with Lori A. Flores, Marie Arana, Nicolás Medina Mora, Jennine Capó Crucet, and more.
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Join Public Books on 1/17 at Seminary Co-op in Chicago for the launch of THE OP-ED NOVEL by Bécquer Seguín (@becquer.bsky)—out next week from Harvard University Press! Bécquer will be in conversation with PB co-EIC Geraldo Cadava.
For more info, and to register: bit.ly/41Ki99y See you there!
For more info, and to register: bit.ly/41Ki99y See you there!
January 3, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Join Public Books on 1/17 at Seminary Co-op in Chicago for the launch of THE OP-ED NOVEL by Bécquer Seguín (@becquer.bsky)—out next week from Harvard University Press! Bécquer will be in conversation with PB co-EIC Geraldo Cadava.
For more info, and to register: bit.ly/41Ki99y See you there!
For more info, and to register: bit.ly/41Ki99y See you there!
“What I learn from fan fiction is it’s so humbling to be creative.”
New from our partner podcast, Novel Dialogue: P. Djèlí Clark in conversation with andré carrington and host Rebecca Ballard.
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New from our partner podcast, Novel Dialogue: P. Djèlí Clark in conversation with andré carrington and host Rebecca Ballard.
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October 20, 2023 at 6:15 PM
“What I learn from fan fiction is it’s so humbling to be creative.”
New from our partner podcast, Novel Dialogue: P. Djèlí Clark in conversation with andré carrington and host Rebecca Ballard.
www.publicbooks.org/what-would-u...
New from our partner podcast, Novel Dialogue: P. Djèlí Clark in conversation with andré carrington and host Rebecca Ballard.
www.publicbooks.org/what-would-u...