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With searing honesty, a retired soldier/professor comes to terms with his lifelong worship of a traitor.
Unsolaced: Along the Way to All That Is
By Gretel Ehrlich
A nuanced meditation on the sacred spaces disappearing before our eyes.
Ordinary Girls
By Jaquira Díaz
A scalding, extraordinary debut by a talented young author.
Richard III
By Michael Hicks
Was the notorious stage villain really such a bad guy?
A Promised Land
By Barack Obama
Our 44th president tells his expansive, inspiring story.
A Small Door Set in Concrete
By Ilana Hammerman; translated by Tal Haran
A humanistic, hopeful look at what feels like an intractable conflict.
The Luckiest Man: Life with John McCain
By Mark Salter
This affectionate homage may have benefited from a few more years’ worth of hindsight.
Henry Adams in Washington: Linking the Personal and Public Lives of America’s Man of Letters
By Ormond Seavey
Though fact-filled, this biography does strangely little to reveal the private man behind the public persona.
