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A new history of the negotiations that put Ronald Reagan in power

Long Island, Colm Tóbín’s sequel to his novel Brooklyn, is a concentrated study of the missed or canceled life.

In his brilliant new book, Jedediah Purdy argues that humanity must face the collapse of nature using the three tools it knows best: politics, policy, and cold, hard cash

The beauty of John McGahern’s prose

A harrowing and contentious new assessment of the Nazi war on the Jews of Europe.

The firebrand preacher and founder of the Presbyterian denomination is the subject of a masterful new biography

A thorough new study of the poetry of the great transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson

A new look at the films of the legendary George Cukor

Now in paperback: a thorough - and thoroughly interesting - study of the actual physical dimensions of the little pond whose name Henry David Thoreau made immortal

National Book Award-winner Lily Tuck's latest book attempts an experiment at dramatizing her memories of her early years

A new translation of the great war-novel

revisiting a big book after a decade's interval

A slim new overview of Plato’s life and works

A Stanford history professor attempts to make a positive case for one of the most benighted countries on the planet