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A Child of the Weather Underground Reckons with His Family History

In a new memoir, Zayd Ayers Dohrn ’06GSAS recounts a childhood spent partially on the lam and wrestles with his parents’ ideals 

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The Pacifist's Guide to Satanism

La Carmina, an award-winning blogger, journalist, and author, offers a spirited defense of the often-misunderstood religion

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A Child of the Weather Underground Reckons with His Family History

In a new memoir, Zayd Ayers Dohrn ’06GSAS recounts a childhood spent partially on the lam and wrestles with his parents’ ideals 

London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe

The Mysterious Death of Zac Brettler

In London Falling, Patrick Radden Keefe ’99CC investigates the murky circumstances surrounding an English teenager who washed up in the Thames

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Review: "The Narcotic Farm"

The Rise and Fall of America's First Prison for Drug Addicts, by Nancy D. Campbell, JP Olsen '95JRN, and Luke Walden

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Review: "The Bishop's Daughter"

A memoir by Honor Moore

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Review: "Names on the Land"

A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States, by George R. Stewart '22GSAS

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Review: "A Shattered Peace"

Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today, by David A. Andelman '66JRN

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Review: "Terror and Consent"

The Wars for the Twenty-First Century, by Philip Bobbitt

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Red Leather Days

A journalist writes a book based on a ninety-year-old woman's discarded, long-forgotten diary

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Trilling's Journey Resumed

An excerpt from Lionel Trilling's newly discovered unfinished novel

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Review: "Coltrane: The Story of a Sound"

By Ben Ratliff '90CC

Charlie Chaplin digs into a boot in "The Gold Rush" (1925)
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Review: Modernism

The Lure of Heresy, by Peter Gay '51GSAS

Garden by Renee Rothbein, 1924-2001
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Unknown Solutions

Inflorescence and Long Distance by Sarah Hannah '91SOA, '05GSAS

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Review: "A Place for the Arts"

The MacDowell Colony, 1907–2007, by Carter Wiseman '72GSAS

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Review: "The Collar"

A Year Inside a Catholic Seminary, by Jonathan Englert '01JRN

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