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The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million

by Daniel Mendelsohn


The Artful Clarks

The Clark Brothers Collect: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings

Catalog of the exhibition by Michael Conforti, James A. Ganz, Neil Harris, Sarah Lees, Gilbert T. Vincent, and others.


Drawing a Dog in Iraq

The Prince of the Marshes and Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq

by Rory Stewart


Thanks for the Memory

In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind

by Eric R. Kandel

Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside

by Katrina Firlik


The Moving Target

The Age of Fallibility: The Consequences of the War on Terror

by George Soros


The Prisoners Speak

The Road to Guantánamo

a film directed by Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross

Enemy Combatant: My Imprisonment at Guantánamo, Bagram, and Kandahar

by Moazzam Begg with Victoria Brittain

Guantánamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power

by Joseph Margulies


Men Without Qualities

The Emperor's Children

by Claire Messud

When the World Was Steady

by Claire Messud

The Last Life

by Claire Messud

The Hunters

by Claire Messud


Islam in Europe

Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance

by Ian Buruma

The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam

by Ayaan Hirsi Ali


Opera: Follow the Music

Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera

by Philip Gossett


Our Man in the Underworld

My Life in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973

by Harry Mathews

Oulipo Compendium

edited by Harry Mathews and Alastair Brotchie


Aid: Can It Work?

The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

by William Easterly

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time

by Jeffrey D. Sachs

Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health

by Ruth Levine and the What Works Working Group, with Molly Kinder

The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn't Working

by Robert Calderisi

Africa's Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures

by David K. Leonard and Scott Straus


Rediscovering a Lost Continent

Italy Illuminated

by Flavio Biondo, edited and translated by Jeffrey White

Invectives

by Francesco Petrarca, edited and translated by David Marsh

Humanist Educational Treatises

edited and translated by Craig W. Kallendorf

Biographical Writings

by Giannozzo Manetti, edited and translated by Stefano U. Baldassarri and Rolf Bagemihl

Commentaries

by Pius II, edited by Margaret Meserve and Marcello Simonetta

Later Travels

by Cyriac of Ancona, edited and translated by Edward W. Bodnar with Clive Foss

History of the Florentine People

by Leonardo Bruni, edited and translated by James Hankins

Platonic Theology

by Marsilio Ficino, edited by James Hankins with William Bowen and translated by Michael J. B. Allen with John Warden

On Discovery

by Polydore Vergil, edited and translated by Brian P. Copenhaver

Humanist Comedies

edited and translated by Gary R. Grund

Short Epics

by Maffeo Vegio, edited and translated by Michael C. J. Putnam with James Hankins

Silvae

by Angelo Poliziano, edited and translated by Charles Fantazzi

Letters

by Angelo Poliziano, edited and translated by Shane Butler

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Cheney: The Fatal Touch

A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs

by Theodore Draper

Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror

by Richard A. Clarke

Burn Before Reading: Presidents, CIA Directors, and Secret Intelligence

by Admiral Stansfield Turner

Disarming Iraq

by Hans Blix

The Halliburton Agenda: The Politics of Oil and Money

by Dan Briody

My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope

by L. Paul Bremer III, with Malcolm McConnell

Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life

by Mary Cheney

The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11

by Ron Suskind

Plan of Attack

by Bob Woodward

The Rise and Rise of Richard B. Cheney: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Most Powerful Vice President in American History

by John Nichols

Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet

by James Mann

Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair, with Supplemental, Minority, and Additional Views

31 Days: The Crisis That Gave Us the Government We Have Today

by Barry Werth

Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror

by Mark Danner

Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush

by John W. Dean

Years of Renewal

by Henry Kissinger

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