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Beyond the Circle of Hell

Junot Diaz’s ‘This Is How You Lose Her’

This Is How You Lose Her

by Junot Díaz


What Can You Really Know?

Jim Holt’s ‘Why Does the World Exist?’

Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story

by Jim Holt


At the Slumber Party

How Should a Person Be?

by Sheila Heti


Smash It: Who Cares?

Time Honored: A Global View of Architectural Conservation

by John H. Stubbs

Architectural Conservation in Europe and the Americas

by John H. Stubbs and Emily G. Makaš

Saving Wright: The Freeman House and the Preservation of Meaning, Materials, and Modernity

by Jeffrey M. Chusid


Expect to Be Lied to in Japan

Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World

by John W. Dower

Strong in the Rain: Surviving Japan’s Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

by David McNeill and Lucy Birmingham


John Cheever Turns 100

I come, not to bury Cheever, but to praise him.

Where Does His Wit Come From?

Aesopic Conversations: Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose

by Leslie Kurke


Somalia: Diving into the Wreck

Crossbones

by Nuruddin Farah


The Truth About Oliver Cromwell

God’s Instruments: Political Conduct in the England of Oliver Cromwell

by Blair Worden


Russia: The Citizen Poet

Living Souls

by Dmitry Bykov, translated from the Russian by Cathy Porter


Hello to Berlin

Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power

by Andrew Nagorski


The Great Montale in English

The Collected Poems of Eugenio Montale, 1925–1977

translated from the Italian by William Arrowsmith, and edited by Rosanna Warren


We’re Still Puzzled

The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House

by Edward Klein

The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era

by Michael Grunwald


This Is Not a Revolution

Darkness descends upon the Arab world.

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