Tony Judt’s new book is a dying man’s sense of a dying idea: the notion that the state can play a significant role in its citizens’ lives without imperiling their liberties.
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A new book is as inventive, wide ranging and full of astonishing surprises as the insect world itself.
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As research libraries and archives are discovering, “born-digital” materials are much more complicated and costly to preserve than anticipated.
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Ms. Grunwald’s book is pragmatic and plain-spoken, yet it manages to be steadily baffling about its overall intent.
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Sales of “The Coming Insurrection,” which first appeared in France in 2005, surged after Glenn Beck talked about it on his Fox TV show.
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Mr. Stites opened up new territory for historians with a landmark work on the Russian women’s movement.
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St. Martin’s Press said it had acquired a memoir from Ms. Dench, called “And Furthermore,” that described her professional and private lives.
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Michael Lewis’s book does not attempt a macro view of the financial crisis, but instead proposes to open a small window on the calamities.
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New collections of classic comics, including “Peanuts,”“Bloom County” and “Popeye.”
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With an assist from others’ quotations, David Shields argues that our deep need for reality is not being met by the old and crumbling models of literature.
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