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Claire Messud
Aiming to Please
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
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Sue Halpern
Making It
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin
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Richard Holmes
The Great de Staël
Madame de Staël: The First Modern Woman by Francine du Plessix Gray
Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël by J. Christopher Herold
Germaine de Staël & Benjamin Constant: A Dual Biography by Renee Winegarten
Madame de Staël: The Dangerous Exile by Angelica Goodden
Corinne, or Italy by Madame de Staël, translated from the French by Sylvia Raphael
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Geoffrey Wheatcroft
An Honor For Tony Judt
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Andrew O’Hagan
The Weather Makers
A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré
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Richard C. Lewontin
Why Darwin?
Darwin’s Origin of Species: A Biography by Janet Browne
The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, annotated by James T. Costa
Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne
It Takes a Genome: How a Clash Between Our Genes and Modern Life Is Making Us Sick by Greg Gibson
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Deborah Eisenberg
The World We Live In
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
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Jonathan Freedland
A Black and Disgraceful Site
Island of Shame: The Secret History of the US Military Base on Diego Garcia by David Vine
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Richard Dorment
Primitive in Dresden
Brücke: The Birth of Expressionism in Dresden and Berlin, 1905–1913 an exhibition at the Neue Galerie, New York City, February 26–June 29, 2009
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Jonathan D. Spence
The Mystery of Zhou Enlai
Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary: A Biography by Gao Wenqian, translated from the Chinese by Peter Rand and Lawrence R. Sullivan
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John Banville
‘The Invader Wore Slippers’
Prague in Danger: The Years of German Occupation, 1939–45: Memories and History, Terror and Resistance, Theater and Jazz, Film and Poetry, Politics and War by Peter Demetz
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Daniel Howe
Goodbye to the ‘Age of Jackson’?
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
Andrew Jackson by Robert V. Remini
Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson by David S. Reynolds
Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829–1877 by Walter A. McDougall
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Gershom Gorenberg
The War to Begin All Wars
1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War by Benny Morris
Making Israel edited by Benny Morris
A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel by Gudrun Krämer, translated from the German by Graham Harman and Gudrun Krämer
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Benjamin M. Friedman
The Failure of the Economy & the Economists
Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller
The Subprime Solution: How Today’s Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do About It by Robert J. Shiller
LETTERS
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Liu Xia,
Liao TienchiThe Poet in an Unknown Prison
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Harry Chalmiers,
Elizabeth DrewA Stimulus for Musical Colleges?
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The Editors
Corrections
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Jeffrey M. Dickemann,
Tim FlanneryAre We Becoming a Superorganism?
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Jeremy Bernstein
What A.Q. Khan Really Did
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Nora Rawn
John Muir’s First Life


