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Hitch-22 A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens
	Over the course of his 60 years, Hitchens has been both a foreign correspondent in some of the world's most dangerous places and a... Review: the NY Review of Books Review: the Independent Review: The Guardian Review: The Observer Review: The Economist

Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis
	From an American virtuoso of the short story form ("Salon") comes this collection of her best work, from the groundbreaking Break It Down... Review: The Guardian

Solar by Ian McEwan
	Can a man who has made a mess of his life clean up the messes of humanity? A complex novel that brilliantly traces the arc of one man's... Review: the Economist Review: the Guardian Review: the Observer Review: The Independent Review: TIME

Pregnant Widow Inside History by Martin Amis
	In a castle on a mountainside in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on a sea of change, trapped inside the history of the 1970's...

Kissing the Mask Beauty, Understatement and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theater, with Some Thoughts on Muses (Especially Helga Testorf), by William T Vollmann
	Writing with the extraordinary awareness and endless curiosity that has defined his oeuvre, Vollmann takes an in-depth look into the... Review: The Asian Review of Books Review: the New York Review of Books

Eclipse of the Sunnis Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East by Deborah Amos
	Two million Sunni Muslims displaced or exiled by the conflict in Iraq have spread across the Middle East, unbalancing that sensitive... Review: the New York Review of Books

Perfect Rigor A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century by Masha Gessen
	In 2006, eccentric Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman solved one of the world's greatest intellectual puzzles. For this feat, Perelman...

Death and Life of the Great American School System How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education by Diane Ravitch
	Award-winning author, public intellectual, and former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch critiques a lifetime's worth of school... Review: The Christian Science Monitor

Bridge The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick
	Review: The Guardian

Peddling Peril How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America's Enemies by David Albright
	Albright offers a revelation-packed look at the A.Q. Khan network and its role in illicit nuke trading around the world. Review: the Economist

This Time is Different Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen M Reinhart
	"This is quite simply the best empirical investigation of financial crises ever published. Covering hundreds of years . . . Reinhart and... Review: The Economist

What Darwin Got Wrong by Jerry Fodor
	In this provocative, enlightening, and very entertaining book, [the authors] argue that natural selection cannot explain how evolution... Review: The Guardian

Remembering Survival Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp by Christopher Browning
	In 1972, the Hamburg State Court acquitted the German chief of police in the Polish city of Starachowice of war crimes committed against...

Open An Autobiography by Andre Agassi
	A stunning memoir by one of the world's most beloved athletes, "Open" offers a nuanced self-portrait, an intensely candid account of a... Review: The Observer

Terrible Splendor Three Extraordinary Men, a World Poised for War, and the Greatest Tennis Match Ever Played by Marshall Jon Fisher
	A book like no other in its weaving of social significance and athletic spectacle, this soul-stirring account is ultimately a tribute to...

Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine
	Alameddine's astonishingly inventive, wonderfully exuberant novel takes readers from the shimmering dunes of ancient Egypt to the war-torn... Review: NY Review of Books

Cockroach by Rawi Hage
	Hage's look at the underbelly of organized religion and immigrant life in Canada is unflinching and grim. . . . "Cockroach's" finely...

Anthill by Edward Osborne Wilson
	Astonishing, inspirational, even magical: a naturalist's novel about an Alabama boy who heroically tries to save a sacred forest. Review: The Economist Review: NY Review of Books

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