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THE DAWN OF EVERYTHING by David Graeber and David Wengrow

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Posted on November 5, 2021 in
THE DAWN OF EVERYTHING by David Graeber and David Wengrow
THE DAWN OF EVERYTHING by David Graeber and David Wengrow continues to receive enthusiastic praise. In a review for the New Yorker, Gideon Lewis-Kraus writes: "THE DAWN OF EVERYTHING is a lively, and often very funny, anarchist project that aspires to enlarge our political imagination by revitalizing the possibilities of the distant past....The result is an almost hallucinatory vision of the human epic as a series of idiosyncratic digressions. It is the story of how we made it up as we went along—of how things could have been different and, perhaps, still might be." The New Republic describes the book as “historical and theoretical brilliance,” and Vulture calls it "[e]pic in ambition." For the Boston Review, Emily Kern writes: “THE DAWN OF EVERYTHING is a fascinating, radical, and playful entry into a seemingly exhaustively well-trodden genre, the grand evolutionary history of humanity. It seeks nothing less than to completely upend the terms on which the Standard Narrative rests…Erudite, compelling, generative, and frequently remarkably funny.” Lastly, The New York Times ran a feature on the book by Jennifer Schuessler titled “What if Everything You Learned About Human History Is Wrong?” where she notes that the book “took as its immodest goal nothing less than upending everything we think we know about the origins and evolution of human societies.” Allen Lane published the UK edition of the book on October 19, 2021, and Farrar, Straus, and Giroux will publish the US edition on November 9, 2021.