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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.

Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera Sings ‘Every Day We Get More Illegal’
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Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera Sings ‘Every Day We Get More Illegal’

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 / 1 December 2020

Every Day We Get More Illegal, seems to foretell a diatribe vibe, but threaded throughout Herrera's verse is the musicality--the calming, invigorating melodies that remind us, ever so sweetly, if insistently: Latino lives are beloved.