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Ferrer won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in history for “Cuba: An American History,” a tome spanning more than five centuries of entanglement between the island and the United States.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
A few weeks before the tome hit shelves, Latifi didn’t think enough people were paying attention to that news.
From Salon • May 10, 2026
It’s a peculiarly hefty tome if you buy Sellers’s own oft-repeated claim that he had no personality of his own.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
But what I found when I dug into the nearly 500-page tome is that we never should have listened to Attia in the first place.
From Slate • Feb. 26, 2026
Alas, the only books Penelope had close at hand were the cannibal book, her own book of melancholy German poetry in translation, Alexander’s book of Shakespeare sonnets, and Mr. Gibbon’s tome about the Roman Empire.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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