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These new and collected stories remind us how broad Jay McInerney’s scope has been and how confidently he has ranged across our national experience during his nearly 30-year career.
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Bearing witness to the news had a decided effect on the beliefs of a writer who covered religion for The Los Angeles Times.
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A historian’s broad survey of terrorist movements from the mid-19th century to the present.
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In Joe Queenan’s account of his life, the belligerent priests, the poverty, the girls and the music all pale beside the rages of his drunken, violently abusive father.
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A British author criticizes the United States in the wake of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the 2008 financial debacle.
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A biography of Vincente Minnelli offers passion and farce: the films, the lovers, the Parisian swan assault.
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God is enjoying an international comeback with the help of a model made in America, argue two editors at The Economist.
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The poet-critic William Logan continues his assault on the state of American poetry in these essays.
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Wendy Doniger tries to remedy the enduring impression of a “unified Hinduism” created in large part by the first British scholars of India.
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After his son’s death, the widower protagonist of this chilling cautionary novel begins to cling too fiercely to his beautiful teenage daughter.
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Nazis lurk behind media moguls in this thriller set in 1920s Berlin.
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A pollster?s reminiscences of serving world leaders, including a catalog of hugs, itineraries and recycled strategies.
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A nonfiction account of a community?s pain and outrage after an Aborigine?s jailhouse death.
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The story of MySpace?s ascent from feisty start-up to $580 million prize.
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The distinctive verse of the Greek poet C. P. Cavafy, newly translated by Daniel Mendelsohn.
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Was Billy Graham a civil rights hero or a conservative apologist? A new history puts the preacher in context.
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Following its heroine across her lifetime, this densely stitched crazy quilt of a novel evokes a quintessential American mythology.
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Dave Cullen?s nuanced account anatomizes the Columbine massacre, showing how readily truth was obscured by myth.
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This sexually explicit novel, which was a best seller throughout Europe last year, minutely details the excrescences of a hygiene-busting heroine.
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The hero of this haunting and fearless novel moves from self-indulgence to the dissolution of self.
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Moving the mythology of the Beat Generation into the comics realm provides a new angle on a familiar story: It gives the hipsters back their body language.
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The hero of Paulette Jiles?s elegiac novel of the Old West is a freed slave.
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James Carroll, a novelist, historian and onetime priest, ranges over family and church, country and self in this memoir of Catholic life.
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This first novel follows urban bohemian Oberlin graduates, mostly between 1998 and 9/11, in a literary homage to ?The Group,? by Mary McCarthy.
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A Penn professor stresses that the framers of the Constitution were great compromisers.
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