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The Wretched of the Earth

Frantz Fanon

1961 · 336 pages

Fanon was a psychiatrist from Martinique who joined the Algerian revolution and died at thirty-six. Colonialism deforms the mind of the colonized, he argues, and violence undoes it. Revolutionaries read him as instructions.

★ 7.9

Fiction

Selected Poems of Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

1941 · 208 pages

Tagore wrote the songs that became the national anthems of India and Bangladesh. His Bengali lyrics address God as a lover who is late, plainly and without a trace of religious machinery.

★ 6.9

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The Wretched of the Earth

Selected Poems of Rabindranath Tagore