A posthumous autobiography from George Carlin and a chronicle of the rise and fall of “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.”

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This authorized history of MI5 shines a penetrating light into some of the darkest corners of the domestic arm of British intelligence.

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In these tales, T. C. Boyle continues his career-long interest in man’s vexed tussles with nature.

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Chinua Achebe’s essays on colonial and post-colonial Africa juxtapose ostensibly mild personal anecdotes with serious political reflection.

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Vali Nasr argues that capitalism may be just the antidote for Islamic totalitarianism.

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An oral history of the founder of the Public Theater and the New York Shakespeare Festival.

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In new books, John Yoo celebrates and Garry Wills denounces the rise of presidential power at the expense of Congress.

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How to manage the complexities of the modern world? Simple checklists, a surgeon argues.

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Why the revolutions of 1989 turned out the way they did.

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A novel exploring the encounter from the “Iliad” between King Priam of Troy and his bitter enemy Achilles.

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This history of Anne Boleyn’s downfall evaluates the range of opinion about what lay behind her execution.

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In Joshua Ferris’s second novel, a successful Manhattan trial attorney is afflicted with an uncontrollable compulsion to leave his desk and trek for miles.

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An exquisitely detailed look at the film that brought us “My mother’s not herself today.’’

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A global history of capitalism in all its creative — and destructive — glory.

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A charmed couple, a hedge fund, insider trading, vast wealth. . . . It’s all in this intelligent novel, a contemporary morality tale about a rich and dysfunctional family.

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The inside story of the 2008 campaign, longer on vignettes and backstage gossip than on analysis.

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This entertaining romp through the unconscious mind reads as vivid reportage overlaid with a sampling of science.

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In the final volume of Javier Marías’s magnificent, sui generis novel, his narrator, an uneasy spy, peers into the territory of torture.

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A subtle and fascinating examination of E. M. Forster’s novels and criticism.

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In these stories, Sam Shepard’s anonymous narrator, his own red-eyed alter ego, drives to forsaken places most travelers never stop, but he’s fine with being nowhere.

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A splendid and compact study of the failure of Communism in Eastern Europe in 1989.

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The quirky pleasures in these essays are due in part to Zadie Smith’s inspired cultural references, from Simone Weil to “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”

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This biography of James Cameron traces his high-tech vision from Erector Sets to “Terminator” to “Avatar.”

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Gregg Easterbrook argues that the financial crisis is just a small cloud over the road to rapid global innovation.

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