The App Issue
Volume 40, Number 6
September-October 2019
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Paul D. Miller ‘s Introduction to Focus: The App Issue
Rita Raley reviews Jaron Lanier’s Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Frida Beckman reviews James Bridle ‘s New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
Christiane Paul and Paolo Cirio’s “A Conversation”
Keith Leslie Johnson reviews Cory Doctorow’s Radicalized: Four Tales of Our Present Moment
Rone Shavers reviews Marlon James’ Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Aaron Jaffe reviews Stephen P. Williams’ Blockchain: The Next Everything
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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.
