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    • THE NAKED AND THE DAFT

      THOMAS FRANK on NORMAN MAILER VERSUS POLLSTERS

    • NO HEAVEN ON EARTH

      VERLYN KLINKENBORG on NATURE WRITING

    • KIM TODD on Maria Sibylla Merian, MAURICE MANNING on the prairie, and NICOLE RUDICK on Patricia Johanson

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    • RACHEL COHEN on Home by Marilynne Robinson

    • RICK MOODY on The Sacred Book of the Werewolf by Victor Pelevin

    • JENNIFER EGAN on Other Lives by André Brink

    • RIVKA GALCHEN on The Only Son by Stéphane Audeguy

    • JOHN FREEMAN on To Siberia by Per Petterson

    • AMY GERSTLER on Ms. Hempel Chronicles by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

    • LAURA STOKES on Out Backward by Ross Raisin

    • MAYA JAGGI on Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh

    • CRAIG SELIGMAN on What Can I Do When Everything’s on Fire? by António Lobo Antunes

    • BRITT PETERSON on Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya

    • SARAH FAY on A Manuscript of Ashes by Antonio Muñoz Molina

    • LISA SHEA on Two Marriages by Phillip Lopate

    • DOMENICK AMMIRATI on The Pisstown Chaos by David Ohle

    • THOMAS ISRAEL HOPKINS on Vacation by Deb Olin Unferth

    • TAYT HARLIN on Voice Over by Céline Curiol

    • REBECCA DONNER on In the Land of No Right Angles by Daphne Beal

    • QUINN LATIMER on The Virgin Formica by Sharon Mesmer

    • CHRISTOPHER SORRENTINO on The Development by John Barth

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      Matt Madden on new comics titles

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      Ben Schwartz on Little Orphan Annie

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    • PHOEBE CONNELLY on Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee by Bee Wilson and Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honeybee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis by Rowan Jacobsen

    • BURTON HERSH on Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA by Melvin A. Goodman and The CIA and the Culture of Failure: US Intelligence from the End of the Cold War to the Invasion of Iraq by John Diamond

    • JOHN L. ALLEN JR. on What Happened at Vatican II by John W. O’Malley

    • HUSSEIN IBISH on The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower by Robert Baer and The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace by Aaron David Miller

    • DOUGLAS PORCH on Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander’s War in Iraq by Peter R. Mansoor

    • TIM JEAL on The End of the Game: The Last Word from Paradise by Peter Beard

    • JENNIFER HOWARD on Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart by Tim Butcher

    • CATHERINE TUMBER on Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment by Phil Zuckerman and Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist by Sharman Apt Russell

    • JABARI ASIM on God and Race in American Politics: A Short History by Mark A. Noll

    • PETER TERZIAN on Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes

    • TREVOR BUTTERWORTH on The Ethics of the Lie by Jean-Michel Rabaté

    • JEFF STEIN on The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin’s Secret Service by Andrew Meier

    • MICHAEL FAMIGHETTI on The Memory of Pablo Escobar by James Mollison

    • NICOLE RUDICK on Nobody’s Home by Dubravka Ugresic

    • MICHAEL O’DONNELL on The Invisible Constitution by Laurence H. Tribe

    • JEET HEER on Essex County by Jeff Lemire

    • DAPHNE MERKIN on The Men in My Life by Vivian Gornick

    • CATHERINE MORRIS on Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s by Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Yvonne Rainer: The Mind Is a Muscle by Catherine Wood, and Feelings Are Facts: A Life by Yvonne Rainer

    • GEOFF NICHOLSON on Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt

    • ALBERT MOBILIO on The Circus, 1870–1950 edited by Noel Daniel

    • CHRISTOPHER COX on Everybody Talks About the Weather . . . We Don’t: The Writings of Ulrike Meinhof edited by Karin Bauer

    • JOSCELYN JURICH on The Jive Talker: An Artist’s Genesis by Samson Kambalu

    • NICOLE RUDICK on Gary Panter

    • MARTHA SCHWENDENER on Lives of the Artists by Calvin Tomkins

    • YONA ZELDIS MCDONOUGH on Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg

    • SCOTT BRADFIELD on The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British by Sarah Lyall

    • MELANIE REHAK on Looking for Anne of Green Gables: The Story of L. M. Montgomery and Her Literary Classic by Irene Gammel

    • RACHEL AVIV on The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning by Peter Trachtenberg

    • ALBERT MOBILIO on NATO: The Military Codification System for the Ordering of Everything in the World by Suzanne Treister


Romantic Paris:

Histories of a Cultural Landscape, 1800-1850

by Michael Marrinan

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Punishing the Poor:

The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity

by Loïc Wacquant

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Big Machine:

A Novel

by Victor LaValle

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The Shame of Survival:

Working Through a Nazi Childhood

by Ursula Mahlendorf

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Jo Ann Callis:

Woman Twirling

by Judith Keller

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Johnny Cash and the Paradox of American Identity (Profiles in Popular Music)

by Leigh Edwards

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The Book Shopper:

A Life in Review

by Murray Browne

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Architecture:

Elements, Materials, Form (Princeton Field Guides to Art)

by Francesca Prina

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Not Becoming My Mother:

and Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way

by Ruth Reichl

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Dan Graham:

Beyond

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