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Arkady Renko, hero of Gorky Park, fights age and a corrupt Moscow in a dark new thriller.
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H. L. Mencken’s fierce and funny Prejudices, reviewed by Katherine A. Powers.

September 3: On this day in 1802 William Wordsworth completed the sonnet, "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge." Apart from its reputation as a model of the poet's style and themes, the sonnet is regarded as an interesting window upon…

When Mark Twain moved to Buffalo in 1869, taking his new bride and taking up his new position at the Buffalo Express, he expected to live in boarding house conditions.…

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The Twilight of the Bombs

We may no longer worry about massive exchanges of nuclear weapons between superpowers, but Pulitzer-winning historian Richard Rhodes (The Making of the Atomic Bomb) knows that so long as a single atomic bomb exists in the world, potential disaster lurks. In his fourth volume on our nuclear history, he charts post-Cold War challenges and prospects.

A Novel Bookstore

This French literary thriller by Laurence Cossé (translated by Alison Anderson) chronicles the unexpected dangers that surface when a bookseller and an heiress open a Parisian bookshop stocked only with masterpieces, as chosen by a secret committee. Replete with an intoxicating stream of reading suggestions.

The Great Typo Hunt

Jeff Deck had been poked in his editorial eagle-eyes once too often by the glaring typos that seemed to be breeding on signs all around him. Enlisting his friend Benjamin D. Herson in the Typo Eradication Advancement League, he set out on a quixotic journey to make right the errors proliferating across the American landscape. Great fun.