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Sentence: Ten Years and a Thousand Books in Prison
By Daniel Genis
What can reading behind bars teach you?
The Marauders: Standing Up to Vigilantes in the American Borderlands
By Patrick Strickland
Meet the extralegal actors harassing immigrants and the brave folks pushing back.
Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia
By Jeevan Vasagar
What makes an “engineered society” work so well?
North to Paradise: A Memoir
By Ousman Umar; translated by Kevin Gerry Dunn
A slim, sobering tale of one man’s journey to the “Land of the Whites.”
Double Plays and Double Crosses
By Don Zminda
An absorbing look at a long-ago scandal that took the shine off the diamond.
Trace & Aura: The Recurring Lives of St. Ambrose of Milan
By Patrick Boucheron; translated by Lara Vergnaud and Willard Wood
A dense, edifying look at an enigmatic holy man.
Savage Journey: Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo
By Peter Richardson
How the iconoclastic writer came to embody his alter-ego.
Fulfillment
By Alec MacGillis
Taking account of an America altered by Amazon’s primacy.
