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    It has been 20 years since the publication of Arundhati Roy’s Booker Prize Winning first novel, The God of Small Things.

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    The legendary foreign policy expert John Mearshiemer has partnered up with the University of Notre Dame’s Sebastian Rosato to write a short, thought provoking but slightly clanky book around a simp

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    “Given the cherry-picked evidence, faulty logic, and sheer naivete of this book, any reader hoping to understand world affairs should turn elsewhere.”

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    “the main points of this powerful book . . . ought to be on the reading list of every university course on American Foreign Policy.”

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    The Cold War needs more great histories like this to show what a truly remarkable time it was, a period of nuclear terror, constant hair-trigger tensions, and the human dr

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    P is for Pterodactyl is an alphabet book about words with silent first letters.

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    “Parks’ essays examine the choice international writers face.

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    “a brilliant and deeply informed must-read for anyone seriously interested in geopolitics, the history of Empire, and the shape of the future.”

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    “The very rich contribution that a book like this makes, bringing together original ideas with detailed experience to back them up, can only come from an experienced foreign correspondent.”

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    This book is absolutely essential reading for anyone hoping to understand post-Soviet Russia and America’s role in shaping its trajectories at home and on the world stage.

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    This book updates Bergen’s Trump and his Generals (Penguin, 2019) with a prologue that takes the story through Trump’s activities in the first year of his Big Lie about the election that,

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    For those of us who are devotees of budget travel, Seth Kugel’s “Frugal Traveler” column often seemed the most readable contribution to the New York Times travel section.

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    National security correspondent for the Washington Post Greg Miller has written an up-to-date account of Donald Trump, Putin’s Russia, and the subversion of American democracy. 

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    Was there a way for candidate Barack Obama to address chaos in Iraq while also calling for pursuit of Osama bin Laden lodged in a corner of putative partner Pakistan?

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    The Written World and the Unwritten World reminds us why we write, why we read, and how that makes us human.”

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    “Why Capitalism? summarizes Professor Meltzer’s past scholarship for a general audience and reiterates his policy proposals in the context of the present economic crisis.

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    Immigrant, Montana is a maze of memory and homeland.

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    “Gewen presents a vivid, insightful, but unsparing portrait of Kissinger’s intellectual development and boundless ambition as he journeyed from Nazi Germany, to the U.S.

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    Different but in a good way.

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    “We are living in the Golden Age for Surveillance.”
    —Jennifer Stisa Granick

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