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Willard Mitt Romney

The Real Romney

by Michael Kranish and Scott Helman

Mitt Romney: An Inside Look at the Man and His Politics

by R.B. Scott


Daddy’s Girl

Reliving the Thatcher years, via ‘The Iron Lady’

The Iron Lady

a film directed by Phyllida Lloyd


Beautiful, Aesthetic, Erotic

On the paintings of Sir Edward Burne-Jones

The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination

by Fiona MacCarthy

The New Painting of the 1860s: Between the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetic Movement

by Allen Staley

Edward Burne-Jones: The Hidden Humorist

by John Christian

The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement in Britain, 1860–1900

an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, April 2–July 17, 2011; the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, September 12, 2011–January 15, 2012; and the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, February 18–July 17, 2012

The Cult of Beauty: The Victorian Avant-Garde, 1860–1900

edited by Lynn Federle Orr and Stephen Calloway, assisted by Esmé Whittaker


The Super Power of Franz Liszt

The greatest pianist who ever lived

Liszt as Transcriber

by Jonathan Kregor


The New World of William Carlos Williams

The poet’s reputation still seems haunted by a ghost of uncertainty

"Something Urgent I Have to Say to You": The Life and Works of William Carlos Williams

by Herbert Leibowitz

The Poetry of William Carlos Williams of Rutherford

by Wendell Berry

By Word of Mouth: Poems from the Spanish, 1916–1959

by William Carlos Williams, compiled and edited by Jonathan Cohen, with a foreword by Julio Marzán


Let the DNA Fit the Crime

The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding

by Sarah Burns

Genetic Justice: DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations, and Civil Liberties

by Sheldon Krimsky and Tania Simoncelli

Convicting The Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong

by Brandon L. Garrett


Gay Night and Day

Jack Holmes and His Friend

by Edmund White


We’re More Unequal Than You Think

The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger

by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett

The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good

by Robert H. Frank

The Age of Austerity: How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics

by Thomas Byrne Edsall

Why Some Politicians Are More Dangerous Than Others

by James Gilligan


The Gambler in Blood and Iron

Bismarck: A Life

by Jonathan Steinberg

Bismarck

by Jean-Paul Bled


The Grand Comedian Visits the Bible

Cain

by José Saramago, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa


Can We Have a Democratic Election?

Efforts to manipulate the election threaten our process for picking a president

The Chinese Are Coming!

A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia

by Aaron L. Friedberg


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