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The Divine Sarah

Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt

by Robert Gottlieb


The Way Out of the Slump

The Holy Grail of Macroeconomics: Lessons from Japan's Great Recession

by Richard C. Koo

Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy

by Raghuram G. Rajan

Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance

by Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm


E.M. Forster: The Story of Affection

A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E.M. Forster

by Wendy Moffat

Concerning E.M. Forster

by Frank Kermode


In the Life of ‘The Wire’

The Wire

a television series created by David Simon

The Wire: Urban Decay and American Television

edited by Tiffany Potter and C.W. Marshall

The Wire: Truth Be Told

by Rafael Alvarez, with an introduction by David Simon


Flaubert, Imperfect

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert, translated from the French and with an introduction and notes by Lydia Davis


What Are Schools For?

In Brown's Wake: Legacies of America's Educational Landmark

by Martha Minow


Is Goodness in Your Genes?

The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness

by Oren Harman


The Pirates Are Winning!

Somalia: The New Barbary? Piracy and Islam in the Horn of Africa

by Martin N. Murphy

Warriors: Life and Death Among the Somalis

by Gerald Hanley


The Fierce Emotions of Siena

Marco Romano e il contesto artistico senese fra Duecento e Trecento (Marco Romano and the Sienese Artistic Context Between the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries)

an exhibition at the Museo Civico, Archeologico e della Collegiata, Casole d'Elsa, March 27–October 3, 2010

Da Jacopo della Quercia a Donatello: Le arti a Siena nel primo Rinascimento (From Jacopo della Quercia to Donatello: Sienese Art in the Early Renaissance)

an exhibition held at Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, March 26–July 11, 2010

Sassetta: The Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece

edited by Machtelt Israëls


The Hard Truth About the Foreign Legion

Our Friends Beneath the Sands: The Foreign Legion in France's Colonial Conquests, 1870–1935

by Martin Windrow

Voices of the Foreign Legion: The History of the World's Most Famous Fighting Corps

by Adrian D. Gilbert


Paying the Right Kind of Attention

The Same River Twice

by Ted Mooney


Ecstatic About Pearl Harbor

So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish: Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers

by Donald Keene


What to Do About Guantánamo?

The Guantánamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law

edited by Mark P. Denbeaux and Jonathan Hafetz

Because It Is Wrong: Torture, Privacy and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror

by Charles Fried and Gregory Fried

The Guantánamo Review Task Force Final Report


The Question of Pearl Buck

Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth

by Hilary Spurling


Germany: The Poet After the Fall

The Bars of Atlantis: Selected Essays

by Durs Grünbein, edited by Michael Eskin and translated from the German by John Crutchfield, Michael Hofmann, and Andrew Shields

Descartes' Devil: Three Meditations

by Durs Grünbein, translated from the German by Anthea Bell

Ashes for Breakfast: Selected Poems

by Durs Grünbein, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann


A New Theory of Justice

The Idea of Justice

by Amartya Sen


The Unfolding Elegy

Nox

by Anne Carson


Searching for a Lost World

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

by Edmund de Waal


High and Low on Crack

Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man

by Bill Clegg


The Primordial Struggle

A Time for Everything

by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated from the Norwegian by James Anderson


A Hero of the China Underground

The Corpse Walker: Real-Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up

by Liao Yiwu, translated from the Chinese with an introduction by Wen Huang, and with a foreword by Philip Gourevitch


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