Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life
By: Natasha Lennard
4.03
Format: 144 pages, ebook
An urgent challenge to the prevailing moral order from one of the freshest, most compelling voices …
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2. Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
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6. Ten Myths about Israel
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4.00
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18. White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism
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21. Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life
By: Natasha Lennard
4.03
Format: 144 pages, ebook
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