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Indie Booksellers Recommend: The Best of Independent Presses This July

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When Franklin Pierce Saved Nathaniel Hawthorne from Financial Ruin

When Franklin Pierce Saved Nathaniel Hawthorne from Financial Ruin

Gary Ginsberg on the Longtime Friendship Between the Novelist and the Future President

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Toward Antifascist Futures: On Small-Scale Organizing as a Global Movement

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