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The Last Witnesses
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By Meline Toumani, adapted from her first book, There Was and There Was Not: A Journey Through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and Beyond, out this month from Metropolitan…

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Stop Hillary!
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Vote no to a Clinton dynasty

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“Today Is Better Than Tomorrow”
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A Marine returns to a divided Iraq

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The Tale of the Tape
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The miracle of Straight Life

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Francis and the Nuns
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Is the new Vatican all talk?

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Putin’s Double
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By Emmanuel Carrère, from Limonov, to be published in October by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Carrère’s books include The Adversary, My Life as a Russian Novel, and Lives Other Than…

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Army of Shadows
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From a memoir written in 1944 by Marcelle Hamel-Hateau, a schoolteacher in the Norman village of Neuville-au-Plain, included in D-Day Through French Eyes, by Mary Louise Roberts, published last month…

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Agreeable Angstrom
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John Updike, Yes-Man

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The Quinoa Quarrel
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Who owns the world’s greatest superfood?

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Into Africa
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By Howard W. French, from China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa, published this month by Knopf. French is a former New York…

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Humor
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Repetition is a mighty power in the domain of humor. I undertook to prove the truth of this forty years ago in San Francisco on the occasion of my second…

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