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The double book-keeping of Christopher Hitchens.

Kai Bird's Crossing Mandelbaum Gate is a meditation on the collective failure of Israelis and Palestinians to reconcile their histories of loss and victimhood.

A rock bottom, a bottom line, a body in extremis all make the poems of Graham Foust quaver and reel.

Taylor Branch and a president's prodigious appetite for vindication before the bar of history.

Howard Zinn's writings remain essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the upheavals of the '60s

A conversation with the author of The Professor about her affair with an older woman and the journals of Susan Sontag.

A poignant memoir about life in the occupied territories during the second intifada.

J.M. Coetzee's Summertime and the fictions of self-deception.

A long-lost memoir of the Spanish Civil War moves jaggedly between boredom, fleeting triumphs and terror.

Over a decade ago, in his novel The Ax, Donald E. Westlake captured the ruthlessness and anomie of economic Darwinism.