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Stradivari's Genius: Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection 
by Toby Faber
The Mysteries of the Cremonese Luthiers
by ADAM BAER
 Apr 5, 2005
The Hemingses of Monticello 
by Annette Gordon-Reed
A Peculiar Association: Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Sep 24, 2008
The Terezin Album of Marianka Zadikow  Against Oblivion: 'The Terezin Album of Marianka Zadikow'
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Sep 17, 2008
Left in Dark Times 
by Bernard-Henri Lévy
The God That Failed: 'Left in Dark Times' by Bernard-Henri Lévy
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Sep 10, 2008
Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe 
by Mark Mazower
An Empire of Blood: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Sep 3, 2008
Rock Crystal 
by Adalbert Stifter
The Magic Mountain: Adalbert Stifter's 'Rock Crystal'
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Aug 29, 2008
The Other Half 
by Tom Buk-Swienty
How Jacob Riis Lived: Tom Buk-Swienty's 'The Other Half'
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Aug 27, 2008
Freedom's Battle 
by Gary Bass
Adjusting the Theory of Just War: Gary Bass's 'Freedom's Battle'
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Aug 20, 2008
Praising It New: The Best of the New Criticism  Harvesting the Waste Land: An Anthology of New Criticism
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Aug 13, 2008
Demons 
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Demons Inner and Outer
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Aug 6, 2008
A Manuscript of Ashes 
by Antonio Muñoz Molina
Tilting at Spanish History: 'A Manuscript of Ashes' by Antonio Muñoz Molina
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jul 30, 2008
The Invention of Scotland 
by Hugh Trevor-Roper
Hugh Trevor-Roper's 'The Invention of Scotland'
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jul 23, 2008
Paradise Lost 
by Giles Milton
The Ruined City of Smyrna: Giles Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jul 16, 2008
John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand 
by Richard Reeves
A Man for All Seasons: 'John Stuart Mill, Victorian Firebrand'
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jul 9, 2008
The Road to Monticello 
by Kevin Hayes
Thomas Jefferson, Gentleman Scholar
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jul 2, 2008
Germaine de Staël and Benjamin Constant 
by Renee Winegarten
A Tale of Two Lovers: de Staël and Constant
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jun 25, 2008
Sovereignty: God, State, and Self 
by Jean Bethke Elshtain
The Origins of Power: Jean Bethke Elshtain's 'Sovereignty'
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jun 18, 2008
Life Studies 
by Robert Lowell
Reconsiderations: 'Life Studies' by Robert Lowell
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jun 18, 2008
Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War 
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Patrick J. Buchanan's Know-Nothing History
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jun 11, 2008
The Slaves' War 
by Andrew Ward
Battle Cry of Freedom: Andrew Ward's 'The Slaves' War'
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jun 4, 2008
Atmospheric Disturbances 
by Rivka Galchen
A Slight Trick of the Mind: Rivka Galchen's 'Atmospheric Disturbances'
by ADAM KIRSCH
 May 28, 2008
Is Milton Better Than Shakespeare? 
by Nigel Smith
Doing Battle With the Bard
by ADAM KIRSCH
 May 21, 2008
Bright Shiny Morning 
by James Frey
Crash and Burn
by ADAM KIRSCH
 May 14, 2008
Tintin and the Secret of Literature 
by Tom McCarthy
Pulling Back the Curtain on Hergé
by ADAM KIRSCH
 May 7, 2008
Moral Clarity 
by Susan Neiman
Susan Neiman's Metaphysics of Morals
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Apr 30, 2008
Azores 
by David Yezzi
David Yezzi and Adam Zagajewski: Songs of Innocence and Experience
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Apr 23, 2008
Eternal Enemies 
by Adam Zagajewski
David Yezzi and Adam Zagajewski: Songs of Innocence and Experience
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Apr 23, 2008
American Earth  Nature's Keepers
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Apr 16, 2008
Theodor W. Adorno: One Last Genius 
by Detlev Claussen
The Stern German
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Apr 9, 2008
A History of Histories 
by John Burrow
Those Who Do Know the Past
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Apr 2, 2008
The Second Plane 
by Martin Amis
The Writing Man's Burden
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Mar 26, 2008
Worlds at War 
by Anthony Pagden
A Convergence Of Civilizations
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Mar 19, 2008
Human Smoke 
by Nicholson Baker
War Games
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Mar 12, 2008
The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad 
by John Stape
Searching For Joseph Conrad
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Mar 5, 2008
Luck and the Irish 
by R.F. Foster
Cuddling Up With the Celtic Tiger
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Feb 27, 2008
Setting the Desert on Fire 
by James Barr
Arabian Knights
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Feb 20, 2008
Artists in Exile 
by Joseph Horowitz
Brave New World
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Feb 13, 2008
After Tamerlane 
by John Darwin
The Imperial Appetite
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Feb 6, 2008
God's Crucible 
by David Levering Lewis
When Civilizations Clashed
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jan 30, 2008
Alfred Kazin: A Biography 
by Richard M. Cook
Native Son
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jan 23, 2008
This Republic of Suffering 
by Drew Gilpin Faust
Among The Dead
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jan 9, 2008
Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? 
by James Sheehan
Heralding the End of War
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jan 2, 2008
Vermeer's Hat 
by Timothy Brook
A History of Global Trade
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Dec 26, 2007
Matters of Honor 
by Louis Begley
Books on Writing
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Dec 19, 2007
Ambition and Survival 
by Christian Wiman
Books on Writing
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Dec 19, 2007
Thinking Politically 
by Michael Walzer
Between Liberalism and Leftism
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Dec 12, 2007
On Ugliness 
by Umberto Eco
The Human Carnival
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Dec 5, 2007
The Disinherited 
by Henry Kamen
A Nation In Exile
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Nov 28, 2007
The Voices of the Dead 
by Hiroaki Kuromiya
The Gulag Testimonial
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Nov 21, 2007
American Transcendentalism 
by Philip F. Gura
Band of Outsiders
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Nov 14, 2007

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