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Red Memory
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Tania Branigan's Red Memory is an astounding and often harrowing study of Mao's China. A lead writer...
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Anne Berest's The Postcard — with an elegant translation from the French by Tina Cover &...
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Few cultures in history mastered the art of tragedy quite like the ancient Greeks. And very few ...
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In the near-future universe of Michael Farris Smith's Salvage This World, life-threatening ...

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A remarkable and previously untold piece of American history—the secret plot to kill George Washington

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