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The Fear:
Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
by Peter Godwin
Little, Brown and Company
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The Staggering Breadth of Southern Africa’s Political Dysfunction
By Rian Malan
Apr/May 2011
I. The central problem of writing about South Africa is that it is almost impossible to explain the country’s slow-motion catastrophe in terms that make sense to foreigners. Consider these headlines, culled from just a fortnight’s newspapers. Johannesburg’s City Press reports that the head of the

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To End All Wars:
A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
by Adam Hochschild
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918 by Adam Hochschild
By Matthew Price
Apr/May 2011
For Adam Hochschild, author of two well-regarded accounts of Europe overcoming some of the ugliest parts of its past, World War I still resonates with cautionary lessons for champions of social improvement. In hist latest book, To End All Wars, he revisits the harsh lessons of the Great War, and what it did to the left.
Ken Silverstein on the literature of WikiLeaks
By Ken Silverstein
Feb/Mar 2011
I. Much of the furor over last November’s WikiLeaks release of US diplomatic cables concerned the alleged harm that the airing of sensitive American intelligence would do to the United States on the global stage. Vice President Joe Biden denounced WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as a “high-tech

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Under the Sun:
The Letters of Bruce Chatwin
by Bruce Chatwin
Viking Adult
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Under the Sun by Bruce Chatwin
By Michael Dirda
Feb/Mar 2011
Bruce Chatwin (1940–1989) may have been the last important writer in English to model his prose after Hemingway’s. When he wrote, he chiseled away everything except what he wanted the reader to see. Employing lean, declarative sentences and short paragraphs, Chatwin’s prose relied almost wholly on

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Jerusalem, Jerusalem:
How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World
by James Carroll
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World by James Carroll
By Adina Hoffman
Feb/Mar 2011
James Carroll writes that his new book is “about the lethal feedback loop between the actual city of Jerusalem and the apocalyptic fantasy it inspires.” No one who reads the headlines or watches the evening news can possibly doubt that such a Zion-fixated end-time fantasy looms in the minds of many

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Arrival City:
How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World
by Doug Saunders
Pantheon
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Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World by Doug Saunders
By Jonathan Shainin
Feb/Mar 2011
Before I moved to Abu Dhabi in 2007, one of the few things I knew about the United Arab Emirates was that it was home to a vast army of slave labor, imported from the Indian subcontinent to build Pharaoh’s new glass-and-steel pyramids—not to mention staffing his grocery shops and gas stations, weeding

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Revolution:
The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War
by Deb Olin Unferth
Henry Holt and Co.
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Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War by Deb Olin Unferth
By Christopher Sorrentino
Feb/Mar 2011
Deb Olin Unferth’s new memoir of travel and political unrest doesn’t make you wait long to discover how her sojourn works out. Revolution, which tells how in 1987 she and her boyfriend George left college and the United States to travel to Central America and “join the revolution” (actually, any

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El Sueno del Celta / The Dream of the Celt (Spanish Edition)
by Mario Vargas Llosa
Alfaguara
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El sueño del celta by Mario Vargas Llosa
By Graeme Wood
Feb/Mar 2011
Those who wish to see politics in everything frequently get their wish. The selection of a Nobel laureate in literature is a case in point. In 2001, the choice of V. S. Naipaul looked to some like a post-9/11 gesture of sympathy with America—even an endorsement of America’s incipient military rebukes

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Meet the Conservatives: The New Old Right
By Kim Phillips-Fein
Dec/Jan 2011
It would surely trouble John Boehner to hear it, but Karl Marx’s old aphorism about history happening the first time as tragedy, the second as farce has rarely applied with as much force as it does to today’s conservative movement. The GOP wave that swept Boehner into the House speakership in November

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Late for Tea at the Deer Palace:
The Lost Dreams of My Iraqi Family
by Tamara Chalabi
Harper
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Late for Tea at the Deer Palace: The Lost Dreams of My Iraqi Family by Tamara Chalabi
By Aram Roston
Dec/Jan 2011
The 2003 US invasion of Iraq began just as the persuasive exile Ahmad Chalabi desired. His vision, shared by neoconservative policymakers back in Washington, was that once US troops got “rid of Saddam for us,” as he put it, he himself would drive into Baghdad triumphantly, welcomed by throngs of

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Up Front

The Fear:

Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe

by Peter Godwin

Little, Brown and Company

$26.99 List Price

For more info visit:Amazon • IndieBound • Barnes & Noble

By Rian Malan

To End All Wars:

A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918

by Adam Hochschild

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

$28.00 List Price

For more info visit:Amazon • IndieBound • Barnes & Noble

By Matthew Price

By Ken Silverstein

Under the Sun:

The Letters of Bruce Chatwin

by Bruce Chatwin

Viking Adult

$35.00 List Price

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By Michael Dirda

Jerusalem, Jerusalem:

How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World

by James Carroll

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

$28.00 List Price

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By Adina Hoffman

Arrival City:

How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World

by Doug Saunders

Pantheon

$27.95 List Price

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By Jonathan Shainin

Revolution:

The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War

by Deb Olin Unferth

Henry Holt and Co.

$24.00 List Price

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By Christopher Sorrentino

El Sueno del Celta / The Dream of the Celt (Spanish Edition)

by Mario Vargas Llosa

Alfaguara

$19.99 List Price

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By Graeme Wood

By Kim Phillips-Fein

Late for Tea at the Deer Palace:

The Lost Dreams of My Iraqi Family

by Tamara Chalabi

Harper

$27.99 List Price

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By Aram Roston

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