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A Different ‘Darkness at Noon’

After seventy-five years, the original German manuscript has been found

On the Target

Laura Poitras: Astro Noise

Astro Noise: A Survival Guide for Living Under Total Surveillance

by Laura Poitras and others


Israel: The Broken Silence

Israeli human rights activists are under attack

Popular Protest in Palestine: The Uncertain Future of Unarmed Resistance

by Marwan Darweish and Andrew Rigby

Return: A Palestinian Memoir

by Ghada Karmi

Disturbing the Peace: The Use of Criminal Law to Limit the Actions of Human Rights Defenders in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories

by the Human Rights Defenders Fund

Al pi tehom [At the Edge of the Abyss]

by Talia Sasson

The Conflict Shoreline: Colonization as Climate Change in the Negev Desert

by Eyal Weizman and Fazal Sheikh

This Place

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Hillary & Women

Clinton’s record as an advocate for women is distinctly uneven

Broad Influence: How Women Are Changing the Way America Works

by Jay Newton-Small

My Turn: Hillary Clinton Targets the Presidency

by Doug Henwood


The Craving for Public Squares

Why we need creative, open, inviting public spaces

‘China’s Worst Policy Mistake’?

Has any government policy ever affected more people in a more intimate and brutal way?

China’s Hidden Children: Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy

by Kay Ann Johnson

One Child: The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment

by Mei Fong


Brilliant, Troubled Dorothy Parker

Wit, flair, talent, and near genius for self-destruction

Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923

edited by Kevin C. Fitzpatrick

Complete Stories

by Dorothy Parker, edited by Colleen Breese, with an introduction by Regina Barreca

Complete Poems

by Dorothy Parker, edited by Marion Meade

Dorothy Parker: In Her Own Words

edited by Barry Day

Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?

by Marion Meade

The Portable Dorothy Parker

edited and with an introduction by Marion Meade

Constant Reader

by Dorothy Parker

You Might as Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker

by John Keats

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In the Capital of Europe

Brussels is still a capital in search of a nation

Thomas Hardy: The Romantic Episode

Winter

by Christopher Nicholson


The Cops and Race and Gangs—and Murder

Vigilance: My Life Serving America and Protecting Its Empire City

by Ray Kelly

Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing

by Joe Domanick

Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America

by Jill Leovy


A Blinding Need for Each Other

Magda Szabó’s ‘The Door’

The Door

by Magda Szabó, translated from the Hungarian by Len Rix, with an introduction by Ali Smith


How the Lobbyists Win in Washington

The Business of America Is Lobbying: How Corporations Became Politicized and Politics Became More Corporate

by Lee Drutman

The Influence Machine: The US Chamber of Commerce and the Corporate Capture of American Life

by Alyssa Katz


Mysterious, Brilliant Frederick Douglass

The Lives of Frederick Douglass

by Robert S. Levine

Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century’s Most Photographed American

by John Stauffer, Zoe Trodd, and Celeste-Marie Bernier


The Genius of William Gass

Life Sentences: Literary Judgments and Accounts

by William H. Gass

Eyes: Novellas and Short Stories

by William H. Gass


The Amazing Career of a Pioneer Capitalist

Greg Steinmetz’s ‘The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger’

The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger

by Greg Steinmetz


Deep in the Volcano

To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914–1949

by Ian Kershaw


Ireland: ‘A Terrible Beauty Is Born’

Roy Foster’s ‘Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890–1923’

Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890–1923

by R.F. Foster


The Talented, Trapped Spenders

A House in St John’s Wood: In Search of My Parents

by Matthew Spender

Worlds Apart: A Memoir

by David Plante


The UN Fire Brigade: How Good?

The Fog of Peace: A Memoir of International Peacekeeping in the Twenty-First Century

by Jean-Marie Guéhenno


Versatile, Fearless Charles Rosen at the Piano

We shall neither see nor hear the likes of him again soon

Charles Rosen: The Complete Columbia and Epic Album Collection


The Victory of Ukraine

Serhii Plokhy’s ‘The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine’

The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine

by Serhii Plokhy

“Tell Them We Are Starving”: The 1933 Soviet Diaries of Gareth Jones

edited by Lubomyr Y. Luciuk, with an introduction by Ray Gamache

Gareth Jones: Eyewitness to the Holodomor

by Ray Gamache


If Mao Had Been a Hermit

The Big Red Book of Modern Chinese Literature: Writings from the Mainland in the Long Twentieth Century

edited by Yunte Huang

Dragon in Ambush: The Art of War in the Poems of Mao Zedong

by Jeremy Ingalls, compiled and edited by Allen Wittenborn


Inside Obedient Islamic Minds

The New Threat: The Past, Present, and Future of Islamic Militancy

by Jason Burke

The Making of Salafism: Islamic Reform in the Twentieth Century

by Henri Lauzière

Inside the Brotherhood

by Hazem Kandil


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