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Original Sins
In this novel of the 17th century, Morrison performs her deepest excavation yet into America's history and exhumes our twin original sins: the enslavement of Africans and the near extermination of Native Americans.


Chance and Circumstance
Malcolm Gladwell says success depends not only on brains and drive, but on where we come from — and what we do about it.


'The Doves Were Right'
How McGeorge Bundy, a key architect of the Vietnam War, began an agonized search to understand himself.


Exit Wounds
In his first story collection, set mostly in Alaska, David Vann exorcises demons born from the suicide of his father.


A Passage From India
The novelist Amitav Ghosh reimagines the lives of Indian peasants on the eve of the Opium Wars.


Gunsmoke
A fictionalized account of the short life and squalid death of Henry McCarty, a k a Billy the Kid.


The Sophisticated Table
An exploration of the 17th-century shift in French cooking, when chefs rejected pseudomedical dictates to emphasize a more novel merit of food: its taste.


A World of a Different Color
A colorfully detailed analysis of why horses, paradoxically, thrived in the age of industrialization.


Mayflower Power
Sarah Vowell's pop history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony hums along with chipper personal details and genial talk-show banter. It's also really annoying.


Cycles of Doom
How government managers encouraged inflation in the 1960s and '70s and led the American economy into recession.




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