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Bookshelf: A Fresh Lens on the Notorious Episode of Ota Benga [03 Jun 2015|01:36am]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/31/nyregion/a-fresh-lens-on-the-notorious-episode-of-ota-benga.html

Pamela Newkirk engrossingly transforms what was billed in 1906 as a lesson in ethnography into a larger window on racism.
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‘The New World,’ by Chris Adrian and Eli Horowitz [03 Jun 2015|09:30am]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/books/review/the-new-world-by-chris-adrian-and-eli-horowitz.html

A surgeon learns a shady company has her husband’s head.
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‘The Wonder Garden,’ by Lauren Acampora [03 Jun 2015|09:30am]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/books/review/the-wonder-garden-by-lauren-acampora.html

These linked stories provide a group portrait of a WASPy town.
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Dany Laferrière, a Guardian of French, Joins the Académie Française [03 Jun 2015|03:15pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/30/arts/international/dany-laferriere-a-guardian-of-french-joins-the-academie-francaise.html

The writer Dany Laferrière, born in Haiti, is one of the few non-French citizens to become a member of this elite club, a protector of the French language.
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Books of The Times: Review: ‘Primates of Park Avenue,’ Making Fun of the Rich [03 Jun 2015|09:33pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/books/review-primates-of-park-avenue-making-fun-of-the-rich.html

Wednesday Martin’s anthropologically themed memoir examines the women of the Upper East Side of Manhattan — their snootiness, their Birkin bags and their derrières in gymwear.
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