Biography: J
/James Laughlin started a publishing imprint, New Directions, by selling what would become a syllabus of Modern writing from the trunk of his car.
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/What would you do if your artistic survival suddenly depended on the whims of a brutal dictatorship? How far would you compromise? How much would you risk? A new book studies artists in the Third Reich.
Read MoreCoalition of the Chilling
/A British historian's richly-sourced accounting of Molotov-Ribbentrop offers fresh insights into this Nazi-Soviet pact of "non-aggression."
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/William Deresiewicz has written-up some admonitions for gifted children of privilege: beware of status-mongering, ignorance of other classes, greed. But is his book itself just a wee bit ... privileged?
Read More2nd Amendment Fundamentalists
/"You can throw out every damn other thing in the Constitution, as long as you don't touch my guns," one Southern U.S. Senator famously bellowed, perfectly typifying a certain psychosis. A new book picks fights on history of American gun law.
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