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The memoir is a tempting but treacherous form. As the English novelist Rachel Cusk writes in Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $20), “Unclothed, truth can be…

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Talking the Walk
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A stroll through our cities

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The Tragedy of 1953
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Uncovering Iran’s coup

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Root and Branch
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Andrew Solomon’s exploration of difference

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In 1929, Robert Ripley was receiving nearly 3,000 letters a day. As Neal Thompson writes in A Curious Man: The Strange & Brilliant Life of Robert “Believe it or Not!”…

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Making a Scene
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Willa Cather’s correspondence

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Nothing Serious
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P. G. Wodehouse and the costs of innocence

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Red States
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The Soviet Attempt to Export Communism

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Madame and the Masters
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Blavatsky’s cosmic soap opera

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The Tines They Are A-changin’
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A history of table technology

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A Tone Licked Clean
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Fairy tales and the roots of literature

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