In this last installment of his four-volume series on the Bush administration, Bob Woodward renders a harsh final appraisal of the president.

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The writer Michael Greenberg recounts his attempts to reckon with his daughter?s manic depression.

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Victor Pelevin projects a bitter philosophy of modern times through the voice of a shape-shifting nymphet-narrator.

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A biker retraces the journey Robert Pirsig took in ?Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.?

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Candace Bushnell trains her eye on the unhappy rich, yielding a portrait that?s less juicy than you hoped for but more shapely than you feared.

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A memoir about depression?s claim on the author Christopher Lukas?s family.

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Tales of bad fathers, aging wives, oppressed peasants and ungrateful children, set in Mexico.

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What kind of poetry does the British cultural polymath Clive James write? It involves, as you might expect, a little bit of everything.

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A comprehensive history of Himalayan mountaineering.

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During Reconstruction, the states of the former Confederacy sent black politicians to Congress.

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A journalist returns to the war zone she covered a dozen years ago.

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In this important book, Mark Mazower provides the best available survey of the Nazi empire?s precipitous rise and violent demise.

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Stephen Gundle plumbs history to define glamour, from Napoleon to Warhol, Byron to Bond, Monroe to Madonna.

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Marcus Messner is a sophomore at a small, conservative Ohio college during the Korean War. The novel he narrates, like Philip Roth?s last two, is ruthlessly economical and relentlessly deathbound.

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In this Conrad-inspired satirical novel, a vacationing American is set on a path to danger after he carelessly flings a cigarette.

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Marilynne Robinson revisits the events of her novel ?Gilead? from another perspective.

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In Francine Prose?s novel, a 13-year-old girl experiences loss and new awakenings after the death of her older sister.

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A love letter to the music business, from an old hand.

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