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A brilliant exposition of how and why the authorship controversy evolves in tandem with our ideas of how a writer reveals himself in his works.
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A memoir of friendship between two writers, both recovering alcoholics and dog-lovers, who sustained and completed each other until one died, too soon.
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This superb social history of the rise and fall of Prohibition, that maddest of American utopian dreams, is a cautionary tale for the current war on drugs.
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A clever and bracing contrarian critique of proposed reforms to our political institutions—an elected Senate, fixed election dates—and why they’d fail.
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The kidnapped Colombian politician’s gripping account of years in jungle captivity features squabbling hostages, brutish deprivation and, somehow, hope.
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