A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKA GUARDIAN AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' PICKA WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE WORK OF NONFICTIONSo often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom's long star turn coming to a close? Does a continued obsession with the term enliven and emancipate,