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Book reviews

New Books

There were dozens of hippie acts in Haight-Ashbury in the late 1960s, but most people have only heard of a few: Jefferson Airplane, Santana, Janis Joplin, and the Grateful Dead.…

Obama’s Obama

by Robert Kuttner,

The contradictions of Cass Sunstein

Heads Will Roll

by Dan Chiasson,

The story of a morbid curiosity

Only Human

by Tim Flannery,

The evolution of a flawed species

Paradise Lost

by Jenny Diski,

Did Wonder Woman fail feminism?

New Books

by Christine Smallwood,

In the year 564 b.c., a pankratiast named Arrichion stepped into the ring at the Olympic games. Pankration was a nasty mélange of wrestling and boxing, very popular with the…