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On the Death Sentence

“Two years ago, quoting from an earlier opinion written by Justice White, I wrote that the death penalty represents ‘the pointless and needless extinction of life with only marginal contributions to any discernible social or public purposes.’”

Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition

by David Garland


NO, Prime Minister

A Journey: My Political Life

by Tony Blair

The Third Man: Life at the Heart of New Labour

by Peter Mandelson

The End of the Party: The Rise and Fall of New Labour

by Andrew Rawnsley

Failing Intelligence: The True Story of How We Were Fooled into Going to War in Iraq

by Brian Jones


The Tired Terrorist

The Weekend

by Bernhard Schlink, translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside


Looking for Hope in Burma

Than Shwe: Unmasking Burma's Tyrant

by Benedict Rogers, with a foreword by Václav Havel

Everything Is Broken: A Tale of Catastrophe in Burma

by Emma Larkin


Who Is Happy and When?

Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science

by Sissela Bok

The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being

by Derek Bok


My Son, My Son!

Sunset Park

by Paul Auster


In Search of Lost Paris

The Invention of Paris: A History in Footsteps

by Eric Hazan, translated from the French by David Fernbach

Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris

by Graham Robb


Did Churchill Let Them Starve?

Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II

By Madhusree Mukerjee


A Hero of the Church

Newman's Unquiet Grave: The Reluctant Saint

by John Cornwell


Our Flawed Founders

Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 9: January 1790–December 1793

edited by Margaret A. Hogan, C. James Taylor, Karen N. Barzilay, Hobson Woodward, Mary T. Claffey, Robert F. Karachuck, Sara B. Sikes, and Gregg L. Lint

The Quotable Abigail Adams

edited by John P. Kaminski

Abigail Adams

by Woody Holton


Going Mad for Greece

The Colossus of Maroussi

by Henry Miller, with an introduction by Will Self and an afterword by Ian S. MacNiven


How Can the Economy Recover?

Seeds of Destruction: Why the Path to Economic Ruin Runs Through Washington, and How to Reclaim American Prosperity

by Glenn Hubbard and Peter Navarro

Capitalism 4.0: The Birth of a New Economy in the Aftermath of Crisis

by Anatole Kaletsky

Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future

by Robert B. Reich


The Art of Flamingo Watching

The Best of It: New and Selected Poems

by Kay Ryan


Xanadu in New York

The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty

an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, September 28, 2010–January 2, 2011


Having a Good Time with Ariosto

Orlando Furioso

by Ludovico Ariosto, translated from the Italian by David R. Slavitt


Jumping Through the Computer Screen

Reinventing Knowledge: From Alexandria to the Internet

by Ian F. McNeely and Lisa Wolverton

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