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What Happened to Clintonism?

Brother Bill: President Clinton and the Politics of Race and Class

by Daryl A. Carter

Bill Clinton

by Michael Tomasky

Hillary and Bill: The Clintons and the Politics of the Personal

by William H. Chafe

Man of the World: The Further Endeavors of Bill Clinton

by Joe Conason


Martin Luther’s Burning Questions

On the vast, unpredictable forces his rebellion unleashed

Martin Luther: Art and the Reformation

an exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, October 30, 2016–January 15, 2017

Word and Image: Martin Luther’s Reformation

an exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York City, October 7, 2016–January 22, 2017

Law and Grace: Martin Luther, Lucas Cranach, and the Promise of Salvation

an exhibition at the Pitts Theology Library, Atlanta, October 11, 2016–January 16, 2017

Renaissance and Reformation: German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach

an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, November 20, 2016–March 26, 2017

Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet

by Lyndal Roper

Brand Luther: 1517, Printing, and the Making of the Reformation

by Andrew Pettegree

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Nymphets in the New Japan

Some Prefer Nettles

by Junichiro Tanizaki, translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker

Devils in Daylight

by Junichiro Tanizaki, translated from the Japanese by J. Keith Vincent

The Maids

by Junichiro Tanizaki, translated from the Japanese by Michael P. Cronin

The Makioka Sisters

by Junichiro Tanizaki, translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker

Naomi

by Junichiro Tanizaki, translated from the Japanese by Anthony H. Chambers


Egypt: The New Dictatorship

Sisi has used the threat of terror to justify a clampdown on any kind of dissent.

The Egyptians: A Radical History of Egypt’s Unfinished Revolution

by Jack Shenker

Egypt and the Contradictions of Liberalism: Illiberal Intelligentsia and the Future of Egyptian Democracy

edited by Dalia F. Fahmy and Daanish Faruqi


‘Make ’Em Cry, Make ’Em Laugh, Make ’Em Wait’

The King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins

by Catherine Peters

Wilkie Collins

by Peter Ackroyd


Where Globalization Began?

Island People: The Caribbean and the World

by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro


The Art of Difference

“If I stand in front of something,” Diane Arbus said, “instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.”

Diane Arbus: In the Beginning

an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, July 12–November 27, 2016; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, January 21–April 30, 2017

Diane Arbus: In the Park

an exhibition at Lévy Gorvy Gallery, New York City, May 2–June 24, 2017

Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer

by Arthur Lubow

Diane Arbus: A Chronology, 1923–1971

by Elisabeth Sussman and Doon Arbus


Vanities & Regrets

Selected Later Poems

by C.K. Williams

Falling Ill: Last Poems

by C.K. Williams


China’s Astounding Religious Revival

‘The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao’ by Ian Johnson

The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao

by Ian Johnson


The Lion in Winter

Of All That Ends

by Günter Grass, translated from the German by Breon Mitchell


What Gets Called ‘Civil War’?

David Armitage’s ‘Civil Wars: A History in Ideas’

Civil Wars: A History in Ideas

by David Armitage


A Game of Love and Chance

Martutene

by Ramon Saizarbitoria, translated from the Basque by Aritz Branton, and edited by Cecilia Ross


Will the Death Penalty Ever Die?

How can one applaud capital punishment knowing that those executed may well be innocent?

Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment

by Carol S. Steiker and Jordan M. Steiker


Mexico in the Full Light of Day

Sybille Bedford’s ‘A Visit to Don Otavio’

A Visit to Don Otavio: A Mexican Journey

by Sybille Bedford, with an introduction by Bruce Chatwin


The Ancient Delights of the Epigram

The Greek Anthology, Books 1–5

translated from the Greek by W.R. Paton and revised by Michael A. Tueller


How He Used Facebook to Win

How the marketing tools of Facebook and Google helped sell a candidate the majority of Americans did not want

Prototype Politics: Technology-Intensive Campaigning and the Data of Democracy

by Daniel Kreiss

Hacking the Electorate: How Campaigns Perceive Voters

by Eitan D. Hersh


A Better Way to Choose Presidents

Because it reduces vote-splitting, majority rule would encourage more major candidates to run in the general election.

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