Describir: Challenging waves of memory: intersections of rhetoric, politics, and grassroots narratives in contemporary memory studies: The Politics and Rhetoric of Collective Remembering, by John E. Richardson and Tommaso M. Milani, Routledge, 2024, $198.00 (hardcover): Critical Memory Studies: New Approaches, by Brett Ashley Kaplan, Bloomsbury Academic, 2023, $170.75 (hardcover)