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Nobody, Falling Through the Darkness
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The US vice president wrote his new book without citing his source—Peter Thiel.
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A Place of Greater Safety
In granting their prime minister a third term, Armenians have embarked on a bold historic gamble to align their country with Turkey and the West.
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Grace Krilanovich’s new novel reads as if the Summer of Love took a time machine back to the 19th century.
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Eugenics and the Nihilism of Law-and-Order Politics
For the Legacies of Eugenics series, Terence Keel examines how eugenics shapes the way we think about people who lose their lives during violent encounters with the state.
She Wrote Me a Letter
Do Virginia Woolf’s uncollected letters raise the author’s stature, or lower it?
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I Ain’t Mad at Cha
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Anything Could Become a Battleground
Isaac Butler’s new book mixes history and personal testimony to examine the ‘culture wars’ that shaped the 1980s—conflicts that differed in striking ways from the ones we’re witnessing today.
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The burgeoning field of fiction character biographies.
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Dwaipayan Banerjee’s new book investigates India’s role in the history of 20th-century tech development, and what caused it always to seem a step behind the West.
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