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A Year in Reading: Myriam Gurba

In 2017, I broke up with fiction. I did so because I’m sick of the lies.

Thanks to Trumpism, all I read now is truth. This year, I fed myself a diet of journalism, primarily The Washington Post, The New York Times, and , political philosophy, art criticism, and history.  I’ll focus here on three books that I found significant.

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