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Book Title   /   Author Article Title   /   Author  Date
Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation 
by David Edwards
'Art Science' Comes Alive at Eyebeam
by V.L. HENDRICKSON
 Mar 13, 2008
Nixonland 
by Rick Perlstein
'Nixonland,' Chronicling a Political Sea Change
by CHRISTOPHER WILLCOX
 May 29, 2008
The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser 
by Jerome Loving
'One of the Most Incredible of Human Beings'
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Feb 23, 2005
The Black Death 
by John Hatcher
'The Black Death,' John Hatcher's Remarkable History of the Plague
by SIMON WINCHESTER
 Jun 25, 2008
The Night Tourist 
by Katherine Marsh
'The Night Tourist': Grand Central by Night
by FRITZIE ANDRADE
 Apr 29, 2008
Masterworks of the Jewish Museum  100 Years of Identity Crisis
by DAVID COHEN
 Aug 26, 2004
Wedgwood: The First Tycoon 
by Brian Dolan
18th-Century Apprentice
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Oct 20, 2004
A Call to Action: Taking Back Healthcare for Future Generations 
by Hank McKinnell
1996 All Over Again
by IRA STOLL
 Jun 29, 2005
People of the Book 
by Geraldine Brooks
700 Years In the Life Of a Book
by CLARE McHUGH
 Jan 16, 2008
Forty Ways To Look at JFK 
by Gretchen Rubin
A Belated Kennedy Hagiography
by RUSS SMITH
 Oct 26, 2005
The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You Will Never Read 
by Stuart Kelly
A Bibliophile's Worst Nightmare
by FRED VOLKMER
 Apr 26, 2006
The Ivan Moffat File: Life Among the Beautiful and Damned in London, Paris, New York, and Hollywood 
by Ivan Moffat
A Bon Vivant's Banter
by CHRIS SCHMIDT
 Oct 28, 2004
Matisse the Master 
by Hilary Spurling
A Book for Every Matisse Fan
by STEVEN HARVEY
 Sep 29, 2005
The Unknown Matisse 
by Hilary Spurling
A Book for Every Matisse Fan
by STEVEN HARVEY
 Sep 29, 2005
The Letters of Robert Lowell 
by Robert Lowell
A Book Of Importance
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Jun 8, 2005
Love Today 
by Maxim Biller
A Botanical Garden of Desire: 'Love Today' by Maxim Biller
by SAM MUNSON
 Jun 26, 2008
Savage Shorthand: The Life and Death of Isaac Babel 
by Jerome Charyn
A Bravura Biography
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Oct 19, 2005
Lenin's Brain and Other Tales from the Soviet Archives 
by Paul R. Gregory
A Cabinet of Soviet Curiosities
by ANDREW STUTTAFORD
 May 21, 2008
Love and War in California 
by Oakley Hall
A Californian Bildungsroman
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 May 2, 2007
Tattoo for a Slave 
by Hortense Calisher
A Careful Guilt
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Dec 7, 2004
Arts and Letters 
by Edmund White
A Case of Good Instincts
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Oct 19, 2004
The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright 
by Jean Nathan
A Child Who Never Grew Up
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Sep 16, 2004
Of Farming and Classics: A Memoir 
by David Grene
A Classicist's Works and Days
by VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
 Jan 31, 2007
The Waitress Was New 
by Dominique Fabre
A Clean, Well-Lighted Life: Dominque Fabre's "The Waitress Was New"
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Apr 30, 2008
Mistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim 
by Mary Dearborn
A Collector of Quality
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Sep 29, 2004
Landsman 
by Peter Charles Melman
A Confederacy of Romantics
by DAVID WALLACE-WELLS
 Jun 27, 2007
Be Near Me  A Confessor's Confession
by CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN
 May 30, 2007
Now It's My Turn 
by Mary Cheney
A Conservative Advocate for Gay Rights
by BRENDAN CONWAY
 May 16, 2006
The Conscience of a Conservative 
by Barry Goldwater
A Conservative Before His Time
by ANGUS BURGIN
 Jun 27, 2007
The Making of the American Conservative Mind: National Review and Its Times 
by Jeffrey Hart
A Conservative Voice Through the Ages
by JOHN PATRICK DIGGINS
 Mar 29, 2006
Worlds at War 
by Anthony Pagden
A Convergence Of Civilizations
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Mar 19, 2008
Geoffrey Zakarian's Town/ Country 
by Geoffrey Zakarian
A Cookbook That Bridges a Big Divide
by ADINA STEIMAN
 Apr 12, 2006
The Plot 
by Will Eisner
A Dark, Cruel, and Stupid Place
by TIM MARCHMAN
 May 9, 2005
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets 
by Sudhir Venkatesh
A Dealer in the Ivory Tower
by TYLER COWEN
 Jan 9, 2008
Last of the Cold War Spies 
by Roland Perry
A Deceiver Through and Through
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Jul 20, 2005
Attendant Cruelties 
by Patrice Higonnet
A Degradation of the Intellect
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jun 6, 2007
Falling Angel 
by William Hjortsberg
A Devilishly Original Twist
by OTTO PENZLER
 Jan 17, 2007
George Washington: The Founding Father 
by Paul Johnson
A Direct Approach to Familiar Faces
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Jun 1, 2005
Thomas Jefferson: Author of America 
by Christopher Hitchens
A Direct Approach to Familiar Faces
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Jun 1, 2005
Like a Rolling Stone 
by Greil Marcus
A Drumbeat Like A Pistol Shot
by RUSS SMITH
 Apr 12, 2005
The War Within: A Secret White House History, 2006-2008 
by Bob Woodward
A Few of the President's Men: Woodward's 'The War Within'
by NICHOLAS WAPSHOTT
 Sep 11, 2008
Marc Chagall 
by Jonathan Wilson
A Fiddler on the Roof of Modernism
by JAMES PANERO
 Mar 14, 2007
The Parson's Widow 
by Marja-Liisa Vartio
A Finnish Endgame
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Feb 20, 2008
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast 
by Douglas Brinkley
A Flood of Words on Katrina
by WILFRED M. McCLAY
 May 15, 2006
Braise: A Journey Through International Cuisine 
by Daniel Boulud
A Four-Star Guide to One-Pot Cooking
by ADINA STEIMAN
 Jan 17, 2007
Arabesque: A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon 
by Claudia Roden
A Four-Star Guide to One-Pot Cooking
by ADINA STEIMAN
 Jan 17, 2007
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: A Biography 
by Piero Melograni
A Free-Market Mozart
by BENJAMIN IVRY
 Oct 25, 2006
His Excellency: George Washington 
by Joseph J. Ellis
A Fresh Portrait of a Founding Father
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Nov 3, 2004
Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours 
by Noga Arikha
A Fruitful Mistake
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Jun 20, 2007
North of Ithaka 
by Eleni Gage
A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to Yiayia's House
by MEGHAN KEANE
 May 6, 2005

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