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History

Beginning to See the Light

Religious conversion across the ages

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Rule, Britannica

They look like a segment of Borges’s Library of Babel: twenty-four volumes almost uniform in bulk (a thousand pages each, give or take a few), identically bound in a reddish-brown…

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The Queen and I

The awful seduction of the British monarchy

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Disunified Front

The chaotic, underfunded battle against the Islamic State

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Left of Bernie

You say you want a revolution

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Search History

A selection of queries submitted by telephone and in person to the New York Public Library’s Reference and Research Services between 1940 and 1989.

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Everything That Rises

I have come to perceive a cosmos filled with superintelligent beings — a virtually infinite number of them, whose minds have transcended their earthbound bodies and are independent of any…

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