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President Obama & Marilynne Robinson: A Conversation in Iowa

“You have to assume that basically people want to do the right thing”

America’s Green Giant

Frederick Law Olmsted’s revolutionary vision of the public park

Frederick Law Olmsted: Writings on Landscape, Culture, and Society

edited by Charles E. Beveridge

The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, Volume IX: The Last Great Projects, 1890–1895

edited by David Schuyler, Gregory Kaliss, and Jeffrey Schlossberg

Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Public Parks

edited by Charles E. Beveridge, Lauren Meier, and Irene Mills


Very Improbable Candidates

Outsider in the White House

by Bernie Sanders with Huck Gutman, and with an afterword by John Nichols

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

by Ben Carson, M.D., with Cecil Murphy

Rising to the Challenge: My Leadership Journey

by Carly Fiorina


Who Was Saint Paul?

The most enigmatic and controversial figure in the early history of Christianity

St. Paul: The Apostle We Love to Hate

by Karen Armstrong

Who Made Early Christianity?: The Jewish Lives of the Apostle Paul

by John G. Gager

Paul’s Summons to Messianic Life: Political Theology and the Coming Awakening

by L.L. Welborn

Nietzsche Versus Paul

by Abed Azzam


Free Speech, Big Money, Bad Elections

How the super-rich control the political agenda

Madison’s Music: On Reading the First Amendment

by Burt Neuborne


A Girl, a Horse, a Trap

The Mare

by Mary Gaitskill


The Mystery of Primo Levi

His work squares up to human identity crushed and corrupted by unspeakable evil

The Complete Works of Primo Levi

edited by Ann Goldstein, with an introduction by Toni Morrison, and translated from the Italian by Stuart Woolf, Ann Goldstein, Jenny McPhee, Nathaniel Rich, Alessandra Bastagli, Francesco Bastagli, Antony Shugaar, Jonathan Galassi, Anne Milano Appel, and Michael F. Moore


Betrayal in Burma

The Rebel of Rangoon: A Tale of Defiance and Deliverance in Burma

by Delphine Schrank


The Most Dysfunctional Family We Know

Oresteia

by Aeschylus, adapted and directed by Robert Icke

Oresteia

by Aeschylus, adapted by Rory Mullarkey, directed by Adele Thomas


Kundera: Looking for the Joke

The Festival of Insignificance

by Milan Kundera, translated from the French by Linda Asher


A Doctor’s Body Language

Adventures in Human Being: A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum

by Gavin Francis


Facing Napoleon’s Own EU

In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon’s Wars, 1793–1815

by Jenny Uglow


Pamuk: Under the Spell of Istanbul

A Strangeness in My Mind

by Orhan Pamuk, translated from the Turkish by Ekin Oklap


Are We ‘Exceptionally Rapacious Primates’?

The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Inquiry into Human Freedom

by John Gray

The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power

by Steve Fraser


The Strange Politics of Saving the Children

A Mighty Purpose: How Jim Grant Sold the World on Saving Its Children

by Adam Fifield


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