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The Best Minds by Jonathan Rosen

The Best Minds by Jonathan Rosen

A Sto­ry of Friend­ship, Mad­ness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions Acclaimed author Jonathan Rosen’s haunting investigation of the forces that led his closest childhood friend, Michael Laudor, from the heights of brilliant promise...

The Collaborators by Ian Buruma

The Collaborators by Ian Buruma

Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II Ian Buruma’s spellbinding account of three near-mythic figures—a Dutch fixer, a Manchu princess, and Himmler’s masseur—who may have been con artists and collaborators under...

The Absent Moon by Luiz Schwarcz

The Absent Moon by Luiz Schwarcz

A Memoir of a Short Childhood and a Long Depression Translator: Eric M. B. Becker A literary sensation in Brazil, Luiz Schwarcz’s brave and tender memoir interrogates his ordeal of bipolar disorder in the...

Love by Maayan Eitan

Love by Maayan Eitan

An incendiary tale of sex work from a young literary provocateur Love is a fever dream of a novel about a young sex worker whose life blurs the boundaries between violence and intimacy, objectification...

Mike Nichols: A Life by Mark Har­ris

Mike Nichols: A Life by Mark Har­ris

Mike Nichols burst onto the scene as a wunderkind: while still in his twenties, he was half of a hit improv duo with Elaine May that was the talk of the country. Next he...