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Men and Boys

The Greeks and Greek Love: A Bold New Exploration of the Ancient World

by James Davidson

Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty: Boys Were Their Gods

by Andrew Lear and Eva Cantarella


Conservatives: The Tanenhaus Taxonomy

The Death of Conservatism

by Sam Tanenhaus


The Complicit General

Eyes on the Horizon: Serving on the Front Lines of National Security

by General Richard B. Myers, USAF (Ret.), with Malcolm McConnell


Mysteries of Ensor

James Ensor

an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, June 28–September 21, 2009, and at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, October 20, 2009–February 4, 2010

Between Street and Mirror: The Drawings of James Ensor

edited by Catherine de Zegher


The Brazilian Sphinx

Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

by Benjamin Moser

Near to the Wild Heart

translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero

Selected Crônicas

translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero

Family Ties

translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero

The Apple in the Dark

translated from the Portuguese and with an introduction by Gregory Rabassa

The Passion According to G.H.

translated from the Portuguese by Ronald W. Sousa

The Hour of the Star

translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero

Closer to the Wild Heart: Essays on Clarice Lispector

edited by Cláudia Pazos Alonso and Claire Williams

Reading with Clarice Lispector

by Hélène Cixous, edited, translated from the French, and with an introduction by Verena Andermatt Conley

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Pilgrim to Eros

Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life

by Edna O'Brien


Kagame’s Hidden War in the Congo

Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe

by Gérard Prunier

The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa

by René Lemarchand

The Congo Wars: Conflict, Myth and Reality

by Thomas Turner


Grading the New Acropolis

The New Acropolis Museum

edited by Bernard Tschumi Architects, with contributions by Dimitrios Pandermalis, Yannis Aesopos, Bernard Tschumi, and Joel Rutten

Bernard Tschumi

by Gilles de Bure, translated from the French by Gammon Sharply, English adaptation by Jasmine Benyamin and Lisa Palmer

Jean Tschumi: Architecture at Full Scale

by Jacques Gubler, translated from the French by Jasmine Benyamin


The Glimmerglass ‘Traviata’

La Traviata

an opera by Giuseppe Verdi, directed by Jonathan Miller


Lincoln Off His Pedestal

A. Lincoln: A Biography

by Ronald C. White Jr.

Abraham Lincoln: A Life

by Michael Burlingame

Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer

by Fred Kaplan

Mrs. Lincoln: A Life

by Catherine Clinton


Israel: The Writers’ Writer

Midnight Convoy and Other Stories

by S. Yizhar, translated from the Hebrew by Misha Louvish and others, with an introduction by Dan Miron

Preliminaries

by S. Yizhar, translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange, with an introduction by Dan Miron

Khirbet Khizeh

by S. Yizhar, translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange and Yaacob Dweck, with an afterword by David Shulman


Disaster Watch

Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years

by Vaclav Smil


What Happened at Gordita Beach?

Inherent Vice

by Thomas Pynchon


The Pride of Empire

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781–1997

by Piers Brendon


The True Story of Izzy

American Radical: The Life and Times of I.F. Stone

by D.D. Guttenplan


A Hero of the Gothic

God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain

by Rosemary Hill


Why Should You Believe It?

Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism

by Paul A. Boghossian

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