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University Presses

Why Tolerate Religion?

A legal scholar examines the way governments treat faith.

 

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Reading Romance

Fools of Fate

Is true love a matter of destiny? 

 

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Rock & Roll &

Who's That? Brooown!

Das Racist may be gone, but they shouldn't be forgotten soon.

 

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A Reading Life

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

A critic looks back at her favorite read of the year.

 

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Library Without Walls

A Duckburg Holiday

How Carl Barks made Uncle Scrooge McDuck the center of a magical, web-footed world.

 

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The Speculator

Almost Invisible Worlds

Five works of fantastika you might have missed this year.

 

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A Reading Life

Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens

Their father was universally beloved, but growing up Dickens led, more often than not, to hard times.

 

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Reading in Common

Charmers

A short list of books that are equal parts entertainment and provocation.

 

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University Presses

The Great Charles Dickens Scandal

Charles Dickens's beloved characters often harbored terrible secrets.  Their creator was no different.

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Crime and Punishment

The Big Exit

A Sinatra impersonator enmeshed in a Silicon Valley murder.

 

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Reading Romance

Tough Love

These novels find romance even in the direst circumstances.

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A Reading Life

The Watchers

The network of spies and secret police that kept Good Queen Bess in power.

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The Speculator

The Hydrogen Sonata

Seeking to define the New Space Opera through the work of one of its seminal practioners.

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Reading in Common

Friendship in Eden, and After

Revisiting Wallace Stegner's bittersweet tale of two couples whose lives are braided together.

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Crime and Punishment

Undercover

After infiltrating a ruthless criminal's gang, a cop is murdered, launching an urgent investigation.

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May 18: Parade, the "first modern ballet," premiered in Paris on this day in 1917. The production was a collaboration of some of modernism's most famous -- music by Erik Satie, scenario by Jean Cocteau, costumes by Picasso,…

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin

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My Struggle, Book Two

A controversial sensation in Norway, A Man in Love is the second book of six in the series, detailing Knausgaard’s separation from his wife, his move to Stolkholm and the dogged pursuit of a mesmerizing poet.

Minotaur

This newly reissued Cold War classic profiles an Israeli spy obsessed with an English girl half his age, and his attempts to win her love without ever revealing his true identity.

The Innocence Game

Three Chicago journalism students attend an “innocence” seminar that will teach them how to release the wrongfully accused from prison. But as innocents are jailed, a killer roams free, and the students are next on the hit list.