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Empire’s Crossroads, Carrie Gibson      Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution, Laurent Dubois      Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life, Philippe Girard      The Serpent and the Rainbow, Wade Davis      Bob Marley; the untold story, Chris Salewicz      The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution, Beyond a … Continue reading Jay’s Revised Modern Canon 2019 Edition World Literature: the Caribbean

The Isles, Norman Davies      London, Edward Rutherford      The English: a social history 1066-1945, King Arthur, London: biography of a city, Christopher Hibbert      A History of Britain volume 1 3500 BC-AD 1603, Vol 2 1603-1776, Vol 3 1776-2000, Simon Schama      Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour, Kate Fox      … Continue reading Jay’s Revised Modern Canon 2019 Edition World Literature: Britain & Ireland

Key Events in African History, The African Diaspora, The Atlantic World: 1450-2000, Encyclopedia of the Middle Passage, Encyclopedia of the Yoruba, The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World, Igbo in the Atlantic World: African Origins and Diasporic Destinations, A History of Nigeria, A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt: An African Memoir, Toyin Falola      Wonders of … Continue reading Jay’s Revised Modern Canon 2019 edition World Literature: Africa

Fiction The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime, Harold Bloom      The Yale Gertrude Stein A Primer for the Gradual Understanding of Gertrude Stein, Haas ed The Third Rose: Stein and her World, Brinni      The Cannibal, The Beetle Leg, The Blood Oranges, John Hawkes Cosmic Terror: the novels of John Hawkes, Donald … Continue reading Jay’s Revised Modern Canon 2019 Edition: Modern American Literature

As the gates of the Labyrinth of Dreams open and beckon us hither, into wonder and into sublime realms of inchoate passion and authentic being, beyond the boundaries of the Forbidden whose transgression confers self ownership and power,      As the wheel of time spins round again to its quarterly setting point and enfolds and … Continue reading October 31 2019 Of Witches and Seizures of Power