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Whether through disregard, willful ignorance, or strategic elimination, Michael Lewis gives us a glimpse of how parts of the government are being hollowed out.
In his exhilarating translation of Pan Tadeusz, Bill Johnston captures Adam Mickiewicz’s wild fluctuations of register and brilliant associative riffs. The volume recently won the 2019 National Translation Award in Poetry.
Claire Tomalin narrates her story with a prototypically English stiff upper lip, and a reticence about the personal.
The strength of The Mars Room is its compelling vision of the stultifying and claustrophobic underworld of women in prison.
Ilan Stavans’ latest book is an engrossing potpourri of this thinker’s continuing thoughts about language, culture, and the self.
One of the few books that examine the largest mass killing of gays and lesbians in the United States until the 2016 massacre at Pulse.
The twelve stories in this collection are set in radically different places, use multiple forms, and reflect varying levels of political engagement.
There can be no future, Héctor Abad seems to be arguing, when everything you are is hidden away in a time you can never fully know.
In all of his books, John Julius Norwich remembered that history is a story.
Book Commentary: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “Why I Write” — Incomplete Answer
The old questions, good as they are, are going to be augmented with new ones: Are we creating a world worth living in? Are we creating a world we can continue to live in?
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