Jonathan Raban’s books include Surveillance, My Holy War, Arabia, Old Glory, Hunting Mister Heartbreak, Bad Land, Passage to Juneau, and Waxwings. He is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Heinemann Award of the Royal Society of Literature, the PEN/West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award, and the Governor’s Award of the State of Washington. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Independent. He lives in Seattle.
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The Sly Survivor
April 26, 2012
The Lifeboat
by Charlotte Rogan
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Divine Drudgery
May 12, 2011
The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel
by David Foster Wallace
The Broom of the System
by David Foster Wallace
Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will
by David Foster Wallace
Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity
by David Foster Wallace
Infinite Jest
by David Foster Wallace
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The Historic Election: Four Views
December 9, 2010
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Flaubert, Imperfect
October 14, 2010
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert, translated from the French and with an introduction and notes by Lydia Davis
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How Strong Are the British Fascists?
September 30, 2010
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Britain: A False Dawn?
July 15, 2010
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At the Tea Party
March 25, 2010
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Sarah and Her Tribe
January 14, 2010
Going Rogue: An American Life
by Sarah Palin
Sarah from Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar
by Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe
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American Pastoral
November 19, 2009
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits
by Linda Gordon
Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange’s Photographs and Reports from the Field
by Anne Whiston Spirn
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Metronatural America
March 26, 2009
Wendy and Lucy a film by Kelly Reichardt, adapted from a story by Jon Raymond
Livability: Stories
by Jon Raymond
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The Prodigious Pessimist
December 18, 2008
The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal
edited by Jay Parini
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Crashing the Party
September 25, 2008
The Anglo Files:A Field Guide to the British
by Sarah Lyall
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Iris Murdoch’s Holy Fool
June 14, 2007
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Cracks in the House of Rove
April 12, 2007
The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back
by Andrew Sullivan
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The Prisoners Speak
October 5, 2006
The Road to Guantánamo a film directed by Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross
Enemy Combatant: My Imprisonment at Guantánamo, Bagram, and Kandahar
by Moazzam Begg with Victoria Brittain
Guantánamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power
by Joseph Margulies
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The Good Soldier
July 13, 2006
Terrorist
by John Updike
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September 11: The View from the West
September 22, 2005
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A Tragic Grandeur
June 23, 2005
The Letters of Robert Lowell
edited by Saskia Hamilton
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The Truth About Terrorism
January 13, 2005
America the Vulnerable: How Our Government Is Failing to Protect Us from Terrorism
by Stephen Flynn
Fortress America: On the Front Lines of Homeland Security—An Inside Look at the Coming Surveillance State
by Matthew Brzezinski
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
by The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror
by "Anonymous" (Michael Scheuer)
Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror
by Richard A. Clarke
The Power of Nightmares by Adam Curtis
Al-Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terror
by Jason Burke
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The Threat from the Sea
August 12, 2004
The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime
by William Langewiesche
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Robert Lowell: An Exchange
September 25, 2003
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The Last Harpoon
November 30, 2000
A Whale Hunt: Two Years on the Olympic Peninsula with the Makah and Their Canoe
by Robert Sullivan
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Passage to Juneau
November 18, 1999
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Walden-on-Sea
April 20, 1995
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On the Waterfront
July 14, 1994
Alongshore by John Stilgoe
The Lure of the Sea: The Discovery of the Seaside in the Western World 1750-1840
by Alain Corbin, translated by Jocelyn Phelps
Waterfronts: Cities Reclaim Their Edge by Ann Breen, by Dick Rigby. maps by Diane Charyk Norris and Charles Norris
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At Home in Babel
February 17, 1994
A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis
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Hard Times
October 25, 1984
English Journey
by J.B. Priestley
English Journey, or The Road to Milton Keynes
by Beryl Bainbridge
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Innocents Abroad
November 4, 1982
J’Accuse: The Dark Side of Nice by Graham Greene
Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene
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Going Strong
June 24, 1982
Collected Stories by V.S. Pritchett
The Turn of the Years: “As Old as the Century” by V.S. Pritchett
“The Seasons’ Course” selected engravings by Reynolds Stone
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Now, Voyager
January 21, 1982
Halfway Around the World: An Improbable Journey by Gavin Young
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Those Damned Seattle Liberals!
November 5, 2010
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UK Elections: Boredom at the Ballot Box
May 3, 2010
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After the Second Debate: The Clegg Catharsis?
April 25, 2010
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The Third Party Surprise
April 16, 2010
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Did the Gravediggers Arrive Too Soon?
April 2, 2010
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How to Find the Best of Lange
November 2, 2009
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In Bovary Country
October 9, 2009