The Poets & Writers Complete Guide To Being a Writer
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Everything every aspiring writer could ever want to know about the world they hope to enter
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The Suburb and the Sword: James Clavell’s Shogun as a Guide to Manhood
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Steve Danziger on feudalist Japan vs. contemporary Marlboro.
Read MoreBeast by Watt Key
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In Watt Key’s new novel, a young boy goes on a very personal quest to find a cryptic monster in the Florida swamps
Read MoreKatheryn Howard: The Scandalous Queen by Alison Weir
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Historian Alison Weir writes a long novel about King Henry VIII’s very young fifth wife.
Read MoreThe End of October by Lawrence Wright
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Lawrence Wright’s new novel is about a novel coronavirus that sweeps across the world in a pandemic for which nobody is prepared.
Read MoreScandinavian Noir by Wendy Lesser
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A new book by Wendy Lesser examines the phenomenon of Nordic noir.
Read MoreThe Living Presidency by Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash
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A smart analysis of the growing power of the US Presidency - and a call to limit that power.
Read MoreMen of Violence Take It By Force: Philippe Lancon’s “Disturbance”
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Journalist Philippe Lançon’s account of putting his life back together from the inside out.
Read MoreThe Reckoning by MJ Trow
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In the latest exciting MJ Trow murder mystery, the playwright Christopher Marlowe has an appointment in Deptford …
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Radical Wordsworth by Jonathan Bate
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Jonathan Bate writes about the young firebrand William Wordsworth.
Read MoreWhat It's Like To Be a Bird by David Allen Sibley
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David Allen Sibley’s latest bird book is a beautifully-illustrated oversized volume on the behavior of a few dozen well-known species.
Read MoreCapital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty
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Is famous economist Thomas Piketty right about inequality? David Murphy dissects.
Read MoreWhat Is the Grass by Mark Doty
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A contemporary poet discovers he “contains multitudes”--and pairs his intimate memoir with a close reading of the work of Walt Whitman.
Read MoreThe Queen of Paris by Pamela Binnings Ewen
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A sumptuous historical novel about the notorious Coco Chanel.
Read MoreAlien Oceans by Kevin Peter Hand
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What can Earth’s oceans teach us about life on other worlds?
Read MorePeterson Field Guide to Birds of North America (second edition)
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The legendary Peterson field guide gets a long-awaited new edition.
Read MoreCalder: The Conquest of Space - The Later Years by Jed Perl
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The second volume in Jed Perl’s indispensable biography of Alexander Calder.
Read MoreFrom 2017: Calder: The Conquest of Time - the Early Years: 1898-1940 by Jed Perl
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The first volume of Jed Perl’s landmark biography of Alexander Calder.
Read MoreThe Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow
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The least sympathetic Bennet girl from Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” takes center stage in Janice Hadlow’s debut novel.
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