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Ship To It

Rose George drenches the reader in her ocean-wide chronicle of sea-faring commerce, past and present, but her book’s meandering passages warn you in advance to don a lifejacket.

Ben Fulton

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Black Power Fantastic

Adilifu Nama’s book exploration of race among superheroes leaps over the comic history of how black characters entered the genre, but it can’t quite hold its own as a thorough study of the genre.

Rebecca Wanzo

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Beginner’s Pluck

Its professional definition of design may be outdated, but “GO: A Kidd’s Guide” succeeds in demonstrating a visual sensibility, while supplying basic vocabulary for novices.

D.B. Dowd

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St. Louis By Design

How Raymond Edward Maritz harkened back to English country houses and French chateaux to create an architectural style unique to St. Louis, and one that would spread across North America.

Eric Paul Mumford

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Master of the Pot

Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan chart the wonderful, inventive life and career of George Ohr, the Mississippi man who made the world his pot.

Amy Pawl

Dispatches from the Editor, Reviews

Michael Jackson’s Lonesome Highway

Remember The Time gives us peeks at the King of Pop through the lens of staff who worked closest with him, and thought the most of him.

Gerald Early

Dispatches from the Editor, Reviews

Remembering Murray Weidenbaum

How late Washington University economist Murray Weidenbaum waged a gentleman’s battle against the syndromes of small-mindedness.

Gerald Early

Dispatches from the Editor, Reviews

Black History in March? No Good

Why March is the month of my Black History memories, the truth about the Sonny Liston-Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) championship fight, and The Common Reader comes into being.

Gerald Early

Dispatches from the Editor, Reviews

Inventing The Common Reader

I was not interested in starting a journal, academic or otherwise. Then, given time, the invitation proved too seductive to resist.

Gerald Early

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