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Axler’s Theater

The Humbling

by Philip Roth


Specters of a Chinese Master

Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733–1799)

an exhibition at the Museum Rietberg, Zurich, April 9–July 12, 2009; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, October 6, 2009– January 10, 2010


Yahweh Meets R. Crumb

The Book of Genesis

illustrated by R. Crumb


In Evin Prison

My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran

by Haleh Esfandiari


Nearly Anything Goes

Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression

by Morris Dickstein


Emerson: ‘A Few Inches from Calamity’

First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process

by Robert D. Richardson


‘Who Do You Think You Are?’

Alice Munro’s voice can seem deceptively direct, but it expresses an elliptical and poetic sort of vernacular realism in which the ceaselessly analytic voice appears to be utterly natural, as if it were the reader’s own.

Too Much Happiness: Stories

by Alice Munro


The World Is in Overshoot

Paradise Found: Nature in America at the Time of Discovery

by Steve Nicholls


Light on the Dark Side

A Meaningful Life

by L.J. Davis, with an introduction by Jonathan Lethem


Nazis, Soviets, Poles, Jews

The Third Reich at War

by Richard J. Evans

The Holocaust in the Soviet Union

by Yitzhak Arad


Voices in the Heartland

A Gate at the Stairs

by Lorrie Moore


The Palestinian Poet Who Came Back

My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century

by Adina Hoffman


Saving the Magic City

Florence 1900: The Quest for Arcadia

by Bernd Roeck, translated from the German by Stewart Spencer


Fighting over History

What Was History?: The Art of History in Early Modern Europe

by Anthony Grafton


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