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If love has been exhausted as a literary theme, has it vanished from our experience of life as well?

Sister Ping turned a variety store in New York's Chinatown into a lucrative business by making it a headquarters for human smuggling.

For Peter Maass, oil is not a drug so much as a Pandora's box. Tap a well and base instincts spew.

Against the background of the surge, David Finkel twists the concept of wartime good into a cosmic joke.

Stephen F. Cohen's Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives surveys a political landscape of reform, struggle and reconciliation.

Thomas Hobbes sensed the revolutionary impulses of early modern Europe and transformed them into a defense of the most hidebound form of rule.

How will the good-food revolution move beyond its evangelical phase?

Assessing the stealth, subterfuge and delusion of the Cheney vice presidency.

Georgi Stoev plundered his past in the Bulgarian mob to write a series of popular pulp novels. The mob found them good enough for him to die for.

Percy Harrison Fawcett went to the Amazon looking for paradise. He never returned.