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The Shadow Saint

The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice

by Christopher Hitchens


The Pleasures of Melodrama

George Cruikshank's Life, Times, and Art

by Robert L. Patten


The Would-Be Progressives

They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era

by E.J. Dionne Jr.

In Defense of Government: The Fall and Rise of Public Trust

by Jacob Weisberg

Left for Dead: The Life, Death, and Possible Resurrection of Progressive Politics in America

by Michael Tomasky

Values Matter Most: How Republicans or Democrats or a Third Party Can Win and Renew the American Way of Life

by Ben J. Wattenberg

The New Promise of American Life

edited by Lamar Alexander, edited by Chester E. Finn Jr.


The Politics of Dignity

The Decent Society

by Avishai Margalit, translated by Naomi Goldblum


Goodbye to Affirmative Action?

The Ironies of Affirmative Action: Politics, Culture, and Justice in America

by John David Skrentny

Ending Affirmative Action: The Case for Colorblind Justice

by Terry Eastland

In Defense of Affirmative Action

by Barbara R. Bergmann

Divided by Color: Racial Politics and Democratic Ideals

by Donald R. Kinder and Lynn M. Sanders

The Future of the Race

by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cornel West


The Book of Cohen

Belle du Seigneur: A Novel

by Albert Cohen, translated and with an introduction by David Coward


How To Win the Tobacco War

Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris

by Richard Kluger

The Cigarette Papers

by Stanton A. Glantz and John Slade and Lisa A. Bero and Peter Hanauer and Deborah E. Barnes

Smokescreen: The Truth Behind the Tobacco Industry Cover-up

by Philip J. Hilts


The Orpheus of Ulster

The Spirit Level

by Seamus Heaney

The Redress of Poetry

by Seamus Heaney

Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture

by Seamus Heaney


Some Versions of Pastoral

Dream Reaper: The Story of an Old-fashioned Inventor in the High-Tech, High-Stakes World of Modern Agriculture

by Craig Canine

Fields Without Dreams: Defending the Agrarian Idea

by Victor Davis Hanson

Another Turn of the Crank

by Wendell Berry

The Stork and the Plow: The Equity Answer to the Human Dilemma

by Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich and Gretchen C. Daily


Stalin and the Jews

Out of the Red Shadows: Anti-Semitism in Stalin's Russia

by Gennadi Kostyrchenko

Nepravedniy Sud: Posledniy Stalinskiy Rasstrel (The Unjust Trial: Stalin's Last Execution)

edited by V.P. Naumov

The Bones of Berdichev: The Life and Fate of Vasily Grossman

by John Garrard and Carol Garrard


A Simple Facilitator

Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions

by Lloyd Kramer


Mrs. Eddy Builds Her Empire

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

by Mary Baker Eddy

'With Bleeding Footsteps': Mary Baker Eddy's Path to Religious Leadership

by Robert David Thomas

Christian Science

by Mark Twain

The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy & the History of Christian Science

by Willa Cather and Georgine Milmine


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