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China Strikes Back!

It is now not only the West that has wealth

Find Your Beach

The pursuit of happiness in Manhattan

How Bad Are the Colleges?

William Deresiewicz’s ‘Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life’

Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

by William Deresiewicz


A Triumph of Love

Lila

by Marilynne Robinson


Law Without History?

How Justice Scalia’s understanding of the Constitution is wrong

Judging Statutes

by Robert A. Katzmann


The Outsider Art of Tennessee

John Lahr’s ‘Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh’

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh

by John Lahr


The Beethoven Mystery Case

Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph

by Jan Swafford


How Could They?

The Zone of Interest

by Martin Amis


A Message to the 21st Century

The misguided search for a single, overarching ideal

The Charms of Loneliness

Haruki Murakami’s ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

by Haruki Murakami, translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel


Why Weren’t Alarm Bells Ringing?

Prediction is hard, but this doesn’t let our economic policy elite off the hook

The Shifts and the Shocks: What We’ve Learned—and Have Still to Learn—from the Financial Crisis

by Martin Wolf


The Greatest Ancient Picture Gallery

One of the great wonders of India: the painted caves of Ajanta

Censored!

Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature

by Robert Darnton


A Brilliant, Displaced Indian Writer

The Pity of Partition: Manto’s Life, Times, and Work Across the India-Pakistan Divide

by Ayesha Jalal

Bombay Stories

by Saadat Hasan Manto, translated from the Urdu by Matt Reeck and Aftab Ahmad


Why Work Is More and More Debased

“New technologies created new ways ‘of designing and monitoring the work of other parties,’ making it easier to outsource work while retaining and even intensifying control over worker performance.”

The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad For So Many and What Can Be Done to Improve It

by David Weil

Private Equity at Work: When Wall Street Manages Main Street

by Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt


Wildly Different Poets

Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert

by John Drury

The English Poems of Richard Crashaw

edited and with an introduction by Richard Rambuss


Who Knows the American Mind?

The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown

by Paul Taylor

Social Trends in American Life: Findings from the General Social Survey since 1972

edited by Peter V. Marsden

The Problem with Survey Research

by George Beam

Sexual Behavior, Sexual Attraction, and Sexual Identity in the United States: Data from the 2006–2008 National Survey of Family Growth

National Health Statistics Reports

The Pollsters: Public Opinion, Politics, and Democratic Leadership

by Lindsay Rogers


Witness to the Unknowable

In the Light of What We Know

by Zia Haider Rahman


The Burglars Who Exposed the FBI

The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI

by Betty Medsger


What Scientists Really Do

How could the public be better educated about the nature of scientific inquiry?

Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything

by Philip Ball

Ignorance: How It Drives Science

by Stuart Firestein


The Huge, Ignored Uprising in the Andes

The Tupac Amaru Rebellion

by Charles F. Walker


The End of Human Rights?

The Endtimes of Human Rights

by Stephen Hopgood

Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s

by Barbara J. Keys


To Heaven and Back!

The literature of near-death experiences

Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent

Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon—Survival of Bodily Death

by Raymond A. Moody Jr., with a preface by Melvin Morse and a foreword by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Paranormal: My Life in Pursuit of the Afterlife

by Raymond Moody and Paul Perry

On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy, and Their Own Families

by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

On Life After Death

by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, with a foreword by Caroline Myss

Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences

by Jeffrey Long with Paul Perry

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

by Carl Jung, edited by Aniela Jaffé and translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston

Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife

by Eben Alexander

A Vision from Heaven (The Risen Christ)

by Mary Stephens Landoll

Revealing Heaven: An Eyewitness Account

by Kat Kerr, with a foreword by Scribe Angels and illustrations by Walter Reynolds

90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life

by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey

Waking Up in Heaven: A True Story of Brokenness, Heaven, and Life Again

by Crystal McVea and Alex Tresniowski, with a foreword by Laura Schroff

Embraced by the Light

by Betty J. Eadie with Curtis Taylor

I Knew Their Hearts

by Jeff Olsen

Cold Noses at the Pearly Gates: A Book of Hope for Those Who Have Lost a Pet

by Gary Kurz

Wagging Tails in Heaven: The Gift of Our Pets’ Everlasting Love

by Gary Kurz

Furry Friends Forevermore: A Heavenly Reunion with Your Pet

by Gary Kurz

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