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How They Got Their Bloody Way

Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State

by Garry Wills

Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War

by Robert Jervis


Radiant, Angry Caravaggio

Caravaggio

an exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, February 20–June 13, 2010


The Mystery of Female Grace

Kissing the Mask:

Beauty, Understatement and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theater, with Some Thoughts on Muses (Especially Helga Testorf), Transgender Women, Kabuki Goddesses, Porn Queens, Poets, Housewives, Makeup Artists, Geishas, Valkyries and Venus Figurines


‘Innermost Secrets’

Your Face Tomorrow, Volume Three: Poison, Shadow and Farewell

by Javier Marías, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa


Finding the Hidden UN

No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations

by Mark Mazower

UN Ideas That Changed the World

by Richard Jolly, Louis Emmerij, and Thomas G. Weiss, with a foreword by Kofi A. Annan


Plotting Against the Stratford Man

Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?

by James Shapiro


Not So Natural Selection

What Darwin Got Wrong

by Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini


The Two Raymond Carvers

Collected Stories

by Raymond Carver, edited and with notes by William L. Stull and Maureen P. Carroll

Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life

by Carol Sklenicka


Death Comes for the Archbishop

"Así matamos a monseñor Romero"

an investigation by Carlos Dada

Monseñor: The Last Journey of Óscar Romero

a film directed by Ana Carrigan and Juliet Weber


‘A Hat off a Yacht…’

Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems

by James Schuyler, edited by James Meetze and Simon Pettet


The Message from the Glaciers

Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis

Working Group I Contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

When the Rivers Run Dry: Water—The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century

by Fred Pearce

Too Smart for Our Own Good: The Ecological Predicament of Humankind

by Craig Dilworth

Black Soot and the Survival of Tibetan Glaciers

by Baiqing Xu, Junji Cao, James Hansen, and others

On Avoiding Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference with the Climate System: Formidable Challenges Ahead

by Veerabhadran Ramanathan and Y. Feng

The Great Melt: The Coming Transformation of the Arctic

by Alun Anderson

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‘A Strange, Bloody, Broken Beauty’

Dear Husband,

by Joyce Carol Oates

Little Bird of Heaven

by Joyce Carol Oates


The Tea Party Jacobins

The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart

by Bill Bishop, with Robert G. Cushing

Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again

by David Frum

Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government

by Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe

Why Trust Matters: Declining Political Trust and the Demise of American Liberalism

by Marc J. Hetherington

Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party

by Max Blumenthal

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