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by Roberto Bolaño, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer

The Romantic Dogs

by Roberto Bolaño, translated from the Spanish by Laura Healy

Renaissance Siena: Art for a City

an exhibition at the National Gallery, London, October 24, 2007–January 13, 2008

Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947–1963

by Susan Sontag, edited by David Rieff

Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age

by Larry M. Bartels

Red, Blue, and Purple America: The Future of Election Demographics

edited by Ruy Teixeira

Caesar: A Life in Western Culture

by Maria Wyke.

Julius Caesar

by Philip Freeman

Caesar's Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History

by Denis Feeney

The China Lover

by Ian Buruma

War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq: A Series of Cases, 2003–2007

edited by Shawn Christian Nessen, Dave Edmond Lounsbury, and Stephen P. Hetz, with a foreword by Bob Woodruff

Generation Kill

a miniseries written and produced by David Simon and Ed Burns, based on the book by Evan Wright

Baghdad ER

a film directed by Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill

Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery

a film directed by Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill

The Forever War

by Dexter Filkins

Cave, City, and Eagle's Nest: An Interpretive Journey Through the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2

edited by Davíd Carrasco and Scott Sessions

The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal

edited by Jay Parini

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar

by Paul Theroux

Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory

by Roy Blount Jr.

Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages

by Ammon Shea

The First English Dictionary, 1604

by Robert Cawdrey, with an introduction by John Simpson

Women of the Raj: The Mothers, Wives, and Daughters of the British Empire in India

by Margaret MacMillan

Sex and the Family in Colonial India: The Making of Empire

by Durba Ghosh

How to Be Perfect

by Ron Padgett

Messenger: New and Selected Poems, 1976–2006

by Ellen Bryant Voigt