Human Rights
Volume 36, Number 4
May-June 2015
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Sophia A. McClennen’s Introduction to Focus: The Human Rights Turn
Andrés Amerikaner reviews Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m Dying
Jennifer A. Reimer reviews Uwem Akpan’s Say You’re One of Them
Audrey Golden reviews M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!
Tony Cella reviews Sergio González Rodríguez’s Campo de guerra (Battleground)
Rachel Wahl reviews James Dawes’s Evil Men
Belinda Walzer reviews Roland Burke’s Decolonization and The Evolution of International Human Rights
Feature: Women Unbound
Aimee Parkinson reviews Nickole Brown’s Fanny Says
Liana Vrajitoru reviews Mihaela Moscaliuc’s Immigrant Model
Marc Jampole reviews Veronica Golos’s Rootwork
Robert Kramer reviews Yuko Otomo’s Study
Book Reviews
Barry Wallenstein reviews Colette Inez’s The Luba Poems
Laura C. Stevenson reviews Marina Warner’s Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tales
Myrdene Anderson reviews Cecilia Ekbäck’s Wolf Winter
Aaron Hammes reviews Jorge Armenteros’s The Book of I
Jane Rosenberg LaForge reviews Tom LaFarge’s The Broken House
Judith Podell reviews Jen Grow’s My Life as a Mermaid
Shoney Flores reviews Yoss’s and Augustín de Rojas’s A Planet for Rent and A Legend of the Future
Eugene Wildman reviews Rex Burwell’s Capone, the Cobbs, and Me
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Charles Johnson reviewed Richard Wright's American Hunger in the inaugural issue of the American Book Review, Volume 1 , No. 1, December 1977.
