Shylock's Venice by Harry Freedman
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A personality-driven history of Venice’s Jewish ghetto
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To Be a Jew Today by Noah Feldman
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At a time when all eyes are on Gaza, a scholar considers different ways Jews consider God, religious observance, and the state of Israel.
Read MoreThe Shield of Achilles by W. H. Auden
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An annotated reprint of Auden’s great 1955 volume of verse
Read MoreTen Years to Save the West by Liz Truss
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A memoir by the UK’s blink-and-you-miss-her Prime Minister
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Audubon as Artist by Roberta Olson
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A gorgeous new book about the artistic influences on John James Audubon
Read MoreSilver by Rowan Ricardo Philipps
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A review of Rowan Ricardo Phillips’ slim new volume of poetry
Read MoreFarnsworth's Classical English Argument
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An example-driven overview of the nuances and niceties of argument
Read MoreThe Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz
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A lavishly generous new anthology of Delmore Schwartz’s poetry and prose
Read MoreTudor Networks of Power by Ruth Ahnert & Sebastian E. Anhert
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A quite possibly revolutionary analysis of who wrote letters to whom during the Tudor era
Read MorePharmakon by Teju Cole
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A review of Teju Cole’s latest production, a mixture of prose and photos
Read MoreDeath of a Spy by MC Beaton (with RW Green)
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MC Beaton’s beloved character Hamish Macbeth returns, with some help from RW Green
Read MoreThe Hunter by Tana French
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Tana French’s new novel is lush Irish noir crossed with a Gold Rush Western
Read MoreThe Letters of Emily Dickinson, edited by Cristanne Miller & Domhnall Mitchell
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“The Way I read a Letter’s—this—”
Read MoreKeir Starmer by Tom Baldwin
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A biography of the man who might be the next UK Prime Minister
Read MoreThe Great Wave by Michiko Kakutani
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The former New York Times book critic examines the intersections of modern technology, politics, and society
Read MoreThe Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
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A generational historical novel set in the American West
Read MoreThe Formula by Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg
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An inside look at the high-stakes world of fast cars
Read MoreCarson McCullers: A Life by Mary V. Dearborn
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Using newly available sources, Mary V. Dearborn explores the complicated life of a brilliant writer of Southern Gothic fiction.
Read MoreThe Last of Its Kind by Gisli Palsson
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A newly-translated account of the great auk and the men who chronicled its extinction
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