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Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture Waiting for	Daniel Mendelsohn Mendelsohn	Daniel Mendelsohn—hailed by The Economist as one of the finest critics writing in the English language today—brings together a selection of his recent critical essays.
The Company They Kept, Volume Two: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships Company They Kept, Volume Two	Robert B. Silvers silvers	A collection of twenty-seven accounts of friendships between some of the greatest artists and thinkers of our day. Among them are Isaiah Berlin on Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova, Hector Bianciotti on the death of Borges, Bruce Chatwin on a drunken evening with George Ortiz, Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale on riding the subway with George Balanchine, Gore Vidal on Dawn Powell, and John Updike on Saul Steinberg.
The Battle for Egypt: Dispatches from the Revolution Battle for Egypt	Yasmine El Rashidi El Rashidi	In a series of riveting dispatches, Cairo native Yasmine El Rashidi provides an eyewitness account of the entire 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Contributors: Timothy Garton Ash
Liu Xiaobo's Empty Chair: Chronicling the Reform Movement Beijing Fears Most Liu Xiaobo's Empty Chair	Perry Link Link	In this ebook original, Perry Link brings together an incisive new profile of Liu Xiabo and the first full English translation of Charter 08.
Confessions of a Poet Laureate Confessions of a Poet	Charles Simic simic	The secret to our identities lies not in grand events, according to former US poet laureate Charles Simic, but in the parentheses between events. In these brief essays, we get a taste of this great poet's parenthetical observations and recollections.
In Tearing Haste: Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor In Tearing Haste	Patrick Leigh Fermor, Deborah Devonshire fermor	"Spanning half a century, bursting with wit and conviviality, In Tearing Haste collects the letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor and Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire. The result is surely one of the great 20th-century correspondences." —The Observer (UK) Contributors: Charlotte Mosley
The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships Company They Kept	Barbara Epstein, Robert B. Silvers Silver	Now in paperback. Our most remarkable writers share what has influenced them the most: each other. "These wonderful reminiscences will renew readers' appreciation for those unpredictable joys shared between all close friends." —Booklist
From Heaven to Arcadia: The Sacred and the Profane in the Renaissance From Heaven to Arcadia	Ingrid D. Rowland Rowland	"Ingrid Rowland's amazing essays are over the top and down the other side. They pop, they sparkle, they inform, and they add up to a rich and vivid mosaic of Renaissance culture, its ancient sources, and its contemporary interpreters. Above all, they show us why deep scholarship and high style matter so much in this gray age of the world's history."—Anthony Grafton
The Scientist as Rebel Scientist as Rebel	Freeman Dyson Dyson	Now in paperback. Dyson profiles scientists—Newton Einstein, Teller, Feynman—whose independent thought allowed them to make great conceptual leaps. Dyson also puts forth some heterodox ideas of his own on topics like space colonization and the paranormal, living up to his reputation as "one of the world's most original minds."—Times (London)
The Military Error: Baghdad and Beyond in America's War of Choice Military Error	Thomas Powers Powers	Why did George W. Bush invade Iraq? Thomas Powers uses a broad perspective to examine the American tendency to respond to political crises with military force. An expert on CIA intelligence, Powers explains how the Bush administration made its case for war, using faulty intelligence to argue that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction and posed a mounting threat to the Middle East.