These recommendations include some of the films and books I consumed this semester.

Books

Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice

One of the most original sci-fi novels I’ve read in a long time.

Nalo Hopkinson, Midnight Robber

An Afrofuturist novel that, in my opinion, far outstrips Binti.

Bruce Cumings, The Korean War

Many Americans know very little about this war, and misperceptions of it continue to distort political discourse in the US. As a result of this conflict roughly 1 in 5 people in North Korea were killed.

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