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front row left to right: E. Ramshaw, N. Carroll, J. Daniszewski, G. Collins, M. Miller, G. Escobar, T. Shelby; back row left to right: N. Brown, C. Lozada, V. T. Nguyen, E. Alexander, K. Lytle Hernández, K. Merida; N. Barnes; attending virtually (clockwise): L. Bollinger, D. Remnick, K. Boo, A. Applebaum (absent: S. Coll) (Photo by Jose R. Lopez)

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Katherine Boo, Gail Collins and John Daniszewski, co-chairs; Marjorie Miller, administrator

Andy Akiho

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Seven Pillars
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Premiered on December 3, 2021 by Sandbox Percussion at Emerald City Music in Seattle, Wash., an ambitious extension of traditional American percussion writing that, in 11 movements, combines sensuous timbres, an agile command of rhythm, and a wide span of international influences.
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Categories: Music

Raven Chacon

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Premiered on November 21, 2021 in Milwaukee, Wis., a mesmerizing, original work for organ and ensemble that evokes the weight of history in a church setting, a concentrated and powerful musical expression with a haunting visceral impact.
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Categories: Music
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Voiceless Mass

Joshua Prager

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The Family Roe: An American Story
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A deeply reported account of Norma McCorvey, the Roe of Roe v. Wade, and her family, which casts fresh light on the American judicial system’s half century of struggle to reckon with abortion.
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
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Categories: General Nonfiction

Carla Power

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Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back from Extremism
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An eye-opening global investigation into the deradicalization of violent extremists that impeccably balances empathy and skepticism.
Publisher
One World/Random House
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Categories: General Nonfiction

Andrea Elliott

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An affecting, deeply reported account of a girl who comes of age during New York City’s homeless crisis–a portrait of resilience amid institutional failure that successfully merges literary narrative with policy analysis.
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Categories: General Nonfiction
Publisher
Random House
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Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City

Mai Der Vang

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Yellow Rain
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Documentary poems examining the biological warfare that threads through the wars of the Hmong, acknowledging those who perished and the trauma of those who survived in lyrics of witness that defy erasure.
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Graywolf Press
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Categories: Poetry

Will Alexander

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Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten
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Surreal and searing poems, anchored by cultural and literary figures of the African continent, that couple breathtaking musicality with carefully considered global history.
Publisher
New Directions
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Categories: Poetry

Diane Seuss

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A virtuosic collection that inventively expands the sonnet form to confront the messy contradictions of contemporary America, including the beauty and the difficulty of working-class life in the Rust Belt.
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Categories: Poetry
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Graywolf Press
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frank: sonnets

Richard Zenith

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Pessoa: A Biography
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A sparkling and imaginative rendering of the life of the Portuguese writer whose eclectic body of work probed the nature of the writerly self through its use of multiple literary personae.
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Liveright/Norton
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Categories: Biography
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