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Tony Judt is an American treasure, in time he may prove as great to our country as George Orwell and Albert Camus are to theirs.
It is nice to know that there is someone as cultivated and enthusiastic about constitutional history as Professor Akhil Reed Amar.
In this entertaining satire of empire, Christian Kracht makes use of a nihilistic magic realism, without the sweetness one normally associates with that mode.
We will always need critics to show us how literature works by revering it rather than interrogating it as if it had committed a crime.
James Tate remains true to himself. These prose-poems are often stellar, harrowingly distinctive, and worthy of repeat visits.
In this powerful novel, Vietnamese-American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen shakes up stereotypical notions of the War in Vietnam.
Kelly Joan Whitmer does two things very well: she tells a vibrant tale of intellectual reform and shines a light on less prominent historical actors in the history of science.
“When people ask how I became interested in history, I answer it was through an interest in popular culture and disreputable genres.”
Zoë Anderson’s volume aims to give readers a handy way to discern the most influential ballets from among the confusing proliferation that we find in today’s repertory.
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