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Barnes&Noble has substantially reduced its 10,000-copy order of“Obama’s Challenge,”after the book’s publisher announced it would initially be sold exclusively on Amazon.com.
Kenneth M. Pollack advocates a generation-long commitment to promote reform in the Middle East, on a scale with America’s postwar involvement in Europe.
An American journalist reports on her adventures navigating that exotic island nation: Britain.
Brenda Wineapple explores the friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
Hanif Kureishi’s pallid new novel considers middle-age alienation and lust in immigrant London.
A year in the life of a mom -- the performance artist Sandra Tsing Loh.
Paul Theroux retraces the journey that established his career.
How to steer people toward healthier, more prosperous lives, with a little help from the powers that be.
A novel from 1969 comes as a box of unbound sheaves, giving the reader a sense of the fragile experiences it contains.
A foreign correspondent recounts the history of the Kurds.
Stephen Hawking said when something falls into a black hole, all its information is lost. To one academic, that sounded like curtains for quantum mechanics.
Anne Roiphe describes her life after the death of her husband.
Why did the Chinese authorities react so strongly against an exercise society?
A British classics professor traces the lengthy shadow Homer’s“Odyssey”casts across Western culture.
Norman Mailer’s account of the 1968 conventions is a portrait of America, and Mailer, at a bad moment.
New crime novels reviewed:“The Black Tower,”by Louis Bayard;“The Grift,”by Debra Ginsberg;“Fresh Kills,”by Bill Loehfelm;“The Fifth Floor,”by Michael Harvey; and“Good People,”by Marcus Sakey.
What it’s been like reporting a conflict that never seems to end.
An anomalously funny thing happened to Christopher Buckley on his way to the“Supreme Courtship”: nothing funny occurred to him.
George Orwell’s copious diaries are now being published every day in blog form, exactly 70 years after they were made.
“Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics,”a memoir by Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., has become a best-selling title.