Henry David Thoreau: A Life
by Laura Dassow Walls
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From the very start of his career, Thoreau has been one of the most divisive members of the American literary canon—visionary or crank? self-reliant or sponge?—in large part because he offered his own... (Tom)
The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq
by Dunya Mikhail
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The recently announced longlist for the first National Book Award for translated literature inspired me to pick up, finally, a book I'd had my eye on: this remarkable account of Iraqi women who escape... (Tom)
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