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The Snow Leopard and other impossible searches

The writer of “The Snow Leopard” and “At Play in the Fields of the Lord” wrote of nature’s austere simplicity. The man himself was anything but simple.

The year’s best memoirs, biographies, history and more, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

A new biography traces the lifelong pilgrimage of the novelist and Zen teacher Peter Matthiessen.

A new biography of Peter Matthiessen chronicles his many paradoxical attempts to escape who the world expected him to be.

He was a spy, a crusader, an obsessive advocate for neglected people and places—yet his work was shaped, too, by an inner crisis.

The only person to win a National Book Award for both non-fiction (“The Snow Leopard”) and fiction (“Shadow Country”), Peter Matthiessen...

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A new book sheds fresh light on the "Snow Leopard" author, from his founding of "The Paris Review" with George Plimpton to working for the C.I.A. to his many affairs.

When a Zen master loses his way

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Learn about the text, history, and meaning of the U.S. Constitution from leading scholars of diverse legal and philosophical perspectives.

A sprawling biography of the renowned nature writer and novelist.

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In ‘The Place of Tides,’ acclaimed nature writer James Rebanks visits a memorable woman committed to helping ducks

Trump has caused a crisis in civil-military relations — one that could eventually threaten democracy’s foundations.