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Rita Dove's Penguin Anthology of 20th Century Poetry.

Out of the Vinyl Deeps catalogs Ellen Willis’s pop years.

Bettany Hughes's biography of Socrates is a book that Socrates himself, on a mean day, would have torn to shreds.

Jane Campion reconsidered.

On Reza Aslan’s Tablet and Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East.