Margaret Thatcher

The rise of the Iron Lady, at a suitably epic scale.

 

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The Blind Man's Garden

The Afghan odyssey of two Pakistani brothers finds fabled beauty amidst modern warfare.

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Butterfly People

A new look at Lepidoptera fanatics spreads its wings wide.

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Red Moon

A modern werewolf novel attempts to give 21st-century terror an additional bite.

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Bunker Hill

A pivotal battle of the American Revolution receives an incisive historian’s focus.

 

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Country Girl: A Memoir

The Irish novelist looks back on a life of trails blazed.

 

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Farther & Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson

Will the life and writing of a lost American genius receive a posthumous second act?

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The New Digital Age

The minds running Google weigh in on technology's next waves.

 

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My Beloved Brontosaurus

Our fascination with dinosaurs is in no danger of extinction.

 

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The Last Men on Top: Breadwinners

A feminist takes a probing look at the Mad Men generation.

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The Magic of Saida

A multiracial man returns to the African town of his birth, to confront a mystery of poetry and identity.

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Merchant, Soldier, Sage

A look at history through the lens of three "castes" who have competed and collaborated to shape human societies.

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The Movement of Stars

Charting a love affair between astronomers from worlds apart.

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The Little Prince at Seventy

Can a symbol of innocence grow up with its readers?

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The Eleven

The rise of a painter amid the French Revolution and the Terror that followed.

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Trading Bases

How a Wall Street trader raised the stakes of the national pastime.

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The Faithful Executioner

The journal of a sixteenth-century headsman gives a view of early modern life from its terminus.

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A Long Day at the End of the World

Deep in the heart of Georgia, an undertaker's secret refuses to stay buried.

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Gun Guys

A reporter's quest to learn of arms, and the varied Americans who bear them.

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The Burn Palace

A supernatural thriller that defies genre conventions and the "guilty pleasure" principle.

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Top Dog

Dispelling the myths of victory, and unpacking the true motives behind competitive spirit.

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The Letters of William Gaddis

The candid correspondence of a 20th century literary innovator. 

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Life after Life

History repeats itself -- with variations -- in an inventive epic from the creator of the Jackson Brodie novels.

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From Gooroo's Pro-Magnon Kitchen

Hunting locally, gathering sustainably—foraging with the future of mankind in mind.

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The Fun Parts

Are punchy prose and revelatory antics the key to a short story renaissance?

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Salt Sugar Fat

Has the rise of processed food created a generation of addicts?

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Alone on the Ice

A 1913 exploration of Antarctica takes a death-defying turn.

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Benediction

A view of the Colorado landscape and a family's new horizon.

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Out of Order

Tales of the High Bench's history, from the first female justice to take her place on the Court.

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Speedboat

A long-out-of-print gem of wry postmodernism returns.

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May 20: Blue jeans celebrate their unofficial 140th birthday today, the dry goods merchant Levi Strauss and the tailor Jacob Davis receiving a patent on May 20, 1873 for "a new article of manufacture, a pair of pantaloons having the…

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.