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From her early novellas to the Neapolitan quartet, the elusive Elena Ferrante has achieved deserved superstar status for the compulsively readable, addictive quality of her writing. Two of the authors of The Ferrante Letters, Sarah Chihaya and Merve Emre, introduce us to Ferrante and recommend what to read next after My Brilliant Friend.

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Women Sailors and Sailors' Women: An Untold Maritime History
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by Helen Hollick

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by Sadiah Qureshi

The Making of British Anthropology, 1813-1871 (Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century)
by Efram Sera-Shriar

The Myth of the Noble Savage
by Ter Ellingson

Racial Crossings: Race, Intermarriage, And The Victorian British Empire (Oxford Historical Monograph
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