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The Best Books of 2020: Non-Fiction
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The Best Books of 2020: Non-Fiction

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 / 11 December 2020

In the stormy year of 2020 PopMatters' staff have clung to anything seemingly solid with one hand while holding a good book in the other. Through it all, we are curious, engaged, and eager to share what we've read with you.

First Tragedy, Then Farce, Then What?
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First Tragedy, Then Farce, Then What?

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 / 29 June 2020

Riffing off Marx's riff on Hegel on history, art historian and critic Hal Foster contemplates political culture and cultural politics in the age of Donald Trump in What Comes After Farce?