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The Editor: How I Saved the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times from Dullness and Complacency

by Jim Bellows

Into the Buzzsaw:Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press

edited by Kristina Borjesson, with a foreword by Gore Vidal

The News About the News:American Journalism in Peril

by Leonard Downie Jr. and Robert G. Kaiser

Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives

by Todd Gitlin

Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News

by Bernard Goldberg


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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

by Atul Gawande


Leo’s Last Supper

Leonardo's Incessant Last Supper

Leo Steinberg


The King’s Trumpeter

The Long Recessional:The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling

by David Gilmour


The Power of the Super-Rich

Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich

by Kevin Phillips


Did Milton Go to the Devil’s Party?

How Milton Works

by Stanley Fish


Giving the Russians Their Spinach

The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy

by Strobe Talbott


The Comedy Murder Case

The Death of Comedy

by Erich Segal


Palladio Forever!

The Four Books on Architecture

by Andrea Palladio,translated from the Italian by Robert Tavernor and Richard Schofield

The Drawings of Andrea Palladio

by Douglas Lewis


Master Among the Ruins

The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis,translated from the Portugueseby Gregory Rabassa

Quincas Borba

by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, translated from the Portuguese by Gregory Rabassa

Dom Casmurro

by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, translated from the Portuguese by John Gledson

Esau and Jacob

by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, translated from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Lowe

A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

by Roberto Schwarz, translated from the Portuguese and with an introduction by John Gledson

Machado de Assis: Reflections on a Brazilian Master Writer

edited by Richard Graham

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Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War

by R.J.M. Blackett

Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

by David W. Blight


After You’ve Gone

A Multitude of Sins

by Richard Ford


Proust Regained

Marcel Proust: A Life

by Jean-Yves Tadié

Marcel Proust: A Life

by William Carter


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