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The Sickness in Our Food Supply

The pandemic is making the case not only for a different food system but for a radically different diet as well.

Sex and Sincerity

What happens when someone sets out to write fiction that is “100 percent pornographic and 100 percent high art”?

Cleanness

by Garth Greenwell


What Belongs to You

by Garth Greenwell

Mitko

by Garth Greenwell


The Housing Vultures

The investors who exploited the 2008 financial crisis are dictating the bailout of this one.

Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream

by Aaron Glantz


An Invitation from Jeanne Lee

The Newest Sound Around

an album by Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake

The Newest Sound You Never Heard: European Studio Recordings 1966/1967

an album by Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake

Free Standards: Stockholm 1966

an album by Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake


Tyrannical Days

Dogeaters

by Jessica Hagedorn


The Pillage of India

William Dalrymple’s ‘The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire’ and Shashi Tharoor’s ‘Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India’

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

by William Dalrymple

Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India

by Shashi Tharoor


Horace’s How-To

“Human” is the opening word of the ‘Ars Poetica.’ This is unlikely to be an accident.

Horace’s Ars Poetica: Family, Friendship, and the Art of Living

by Jennifer Ferriss-Hill


Naked Souls

Without the Banya We Would Perish: A History of the Russian Bathhouse

by Ethan Pollock


Max the Fatalist

Charisma and Disenchantment: The Vocation Lectures

by Max Weber, edited and with an introduction by Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon, and translated from the German by Damion Searls


Nasty, Brutish, and Long

The Catholic School

by Edoardo Albinati, translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar


The Dream of World Monarchy

Emperor: A New Life of Charles V

by Geoffrey Parker


What Kind of Country Do We Want?

Here is the first question that must be asked: What have we done with America?

Letters


‘Almost Certain’

Did Félix Fénéon plant a bomb at the Restaurant Foyot?


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