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A Promised Land, the first volume of former President Barack Obama‘s presidential memoir, is available today. The book covers President Obama’s early life through the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden in 2011. This period covers his historical 2008 presidential campaign, and most of his first term in office. The …

Robert Christgau is one of the most influential rock critics of all time. He’s also an invaluable book critic, and now he’s releasing Book Reports: A Music Critic on His First Love, Which Was Reading, via Duke University Press, a collection of reviews covering everything from fiction to cultural theory …