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The Lonely Gods

Die Walküre

an opera by Richard Wagner, directed by Robert Lepage, and conducted by James Levine


The Afterglow of John La Farge

John La Farge's Second Paradise: Voyages in the South Seas, 1890–1891

an exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, October 19, 2010–January 2, 2011; and the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, January 22–March 27, 2011


The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why?

The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth

by Irving Kirsch

Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

by Robert Whitaker

Unhinged: The Trouble With Psychiatry—A Doctor's Revelations About a Profession in Crisis

by Daniel Carlat


Cassandra Among the Banksters

Banker to the World: Leadership Lessons from the Front Lines of Global Finance

by William R. Rhodes


What Went Wrong at the Getty

Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum

by Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino


Hello to All That!

To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918

by Adam Hochschild

Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I

by Michael S. Neiberg


Mind Control & the Internet

World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humanity, Machines, and the Internet

by Michael Chorost

The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You

by Eli Pariser

You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto

by Jaron Lanier


Death and Drugs in Colombia

The story of Colombia’s success against drug trafficking, corruption, and terror is impressive. But it is largely untrue.

Y refundaron la patria...: De cómo mafiosos y políticos reconfiguraron el Estado colombiano [And They Refounded the Nation...: How Mafiosi and Politicians Reconfigured the Colombian State]

edited by Claudia López Hernández


Who Made It New?

What Ever Happened to Modernism?

by Gabriel Josipovici


The American Who Spied for the British

Edward Bancroft: Scientist, Author, Spy

by Thomas J. Schaeper


The High Price of the New Beijing

Beijing Record: A Physical and Political History of Planning Modern Beijing

by Wang Jun

Mao's New World: Political Culture in the Early People's Republic

by Chang-tai Hung

Cities Surround the Countryside: Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China

by Robin Visser

The Forbidden City

by Geremie R. Barmé

The Concrete Dragon: China's Urban Revolution and What It Means for the World

by Thomas J. Campanella

Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space

by Wu Hung

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Auden Against Conceit

The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume IV: 1956–1962

edited by Edward Mendelson


A New Approach to the Holocaust

Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews

by Peter Longerich

Heinrich Himmler: Biographie

by Peter Longerich

Model Nazi: Arthur Greiser and the Occupation of Western Poland

by Catherine Epstein

The "Final Solution" in Riga: Exploitation and Annihilation, 1941–1944

by Andrej Angrick and Peter Klein, translated from the German by Ray Brandon


The Master of the Crossed Out

Memories of the Future

by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, translated from the Russian by Joanne Turnbull, with Nikolai Formozov


The Triumph of Paul Muldoon

Maggot

by Paul Muldoon


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