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A wise meditation on social collapse and those preoccupied with the thought of it.
Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today
By Rachel Vorona Cote
This part-scholarship, part-memoir debut explores the many charges leveled at unruly ladies through the ages.
Greek to Me
By Mary Norris
An intrepid copyeditor offers up a Valentine to the birthplace of democracy.
How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Arab Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance
By Elizabeth F. Thompson
Long-ago broken promises and abandoned agreements reverberate yet today.
The Triumph of Christianity
By Bart D. Ehrman
From Paul to Constantine, a modest faith’s stunning rise to prominence.
The Jewish American Paradox
By Robert Mnookin
Who gets to decide what it means to be a Jew?
The Life of William Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-1934
By Carl Rollyson
This chronicle of the problematic icon is well researched, sincere...and arguably unnecessary.
This Much Country
By Kristin Knight Pace
The author ably harnesses an adventure but often fails to keep the reader on her side.
