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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

Janice P. Nimura

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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
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An engrossing dual biography of two sisters who were among the first women in America to receive medical degrees–a complex and sympathetic portrait that sees their struggle to be taken seriously as physicians as a pivotal moment in women’s history.
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W. W. Norton & Company
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Categories: Biography

the late Winfred Rembert as told to Erin I. Kelly

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A searing first-person illustrated account of an artist’s life during the 1950s and 1960s in an unreconstructed corner of the deep South–an account of abuse, endurance, imagination, and aesthetic transformation.
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Categories: Biography
Publisher
Bloomsbury
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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South

Nicole Eustace

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A gripping account of Indigenous justice in early America, and how the aftermath of a settler’s murder of a Native American man led to the oldest continuously recognized treaty in the United States.
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Categories: History
Publisher
Liveright/Norton
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Covered with Night

Kate Masur

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Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
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A sweeping and resonant consideration of abolitionist work, begun decades before the Civil War, that eventually became America’s first civil rights movement–an account that is also a deep study of federalism in jurisprudence, politics and history.
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
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Categories: History

Ada Ferrer

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An original and compelling history, spanning five centuries, of the island that became an obsession for many presidents and policy makers, transforming how we think about the U.S. in Latin America, and Cuba in American society.
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Categories: History
Publisher
Scribner
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Cuba: An American History

Francisco Goldman

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Monkey Boy
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An autofictional inquiry into the protean nature of identity, written with disarming candor and grace, blending memory and imagination to transformational effect.
Publisher
Grove Press
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Categories: Fiction

Gayl Jones

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Palmares
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An engrossing epic set in 17th-century Brazil that is at once a fugitive slave’s odyssey, a love story, and an investigation into the meaning of freedom that is vaster and stranger than the sum of its parts.
Publisher
Beacon Press
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Categories: Fiction

Joshua Cohen

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A mordant, linguistically deft historical novel about the ambiguities of the Jewish-American experience, presenting ideas and disputes as volatile as its tightly-wound plot.
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Categories: Fiction
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New York Review Books
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The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family

Staff of the Los Angeles Times

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For deeply sourced and detailed reporting about a fatal shooting on the set of the film “Rust” that moved beyond the day’s events to a larger consideration of labor and safety concerns in the film industry.
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Categories: Breaking News Reporting
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