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Flights

My Father's Tears and Other Stories

by John Updike

Endpoint and Other Poems

by John Updike

The Maples Stories

by John Updike


The Wittgenstein Illusion

The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War

by Alexander Waugh


Madame Butterfly’s Brothel

The East, the West, and Sex: A History of Erotic Encounters

by Richard Bernstein


The Late Show

Picasso: Mosqueteros

an exhibition, curated by John Richardson, at the Gagosian Gallery, New York City, March 26–June 6, 2009


America’s Prisons: Is There Hope?

Dreams from the Monster Factory: A Tale of Prison, Redemption and One Woman's Fight to Restore Justice to All

by Sunny Schwartz, with David Boodell


Escape in Japan

Tokyo Sonata

a film directed by Kurosawa Kiyoshi


A Heroic Historian on Heroes

American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America

by Edmund S. Morgan


Can Obama Change the Climate?

The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity

by Nicholas Stern


A Surprise from Saint Augustine

Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism

by Paula Fredriksen

Palestine in Late Antiquity

by Hagith Sivan


The Admirable Mrs. James

Alice in Jamesland: The Story of Alice Howe Gibbens James

by Susan E. Gunter

House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family

by Paul Fisher


A Farewell to Arms

The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915–1919

by Mark Thompson


Lincoln’s Black History

Lincoln on Race and Slavery

edited and with an introduction by Henry Louis Gates Jr., and coedited by Donald Yacovone


The Embrace of Bling

How to Sell

by Clancy Martin


Flowering Porter

Collected Stories and Other Writings

by Katherine Anne Porter, edited by Darlene Harbour Unrue


Keats’s Afterlife

Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography

by Stanley Plumly


Who Was Deceiving Whom?

The Man Who Believed He Was King of France: A True Medieval Tale

by Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri, translated from the Italian by William McCuaig


The Greatest Actress of Her Age

A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Two Remarkable Families

by Michael Holroyd


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