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The Birth of the Egghead Paperback
How one very young man changed the course of publishing and intellectual life in America
By Mark LaFlaur Saturday, May 7, 2022
Frightfully Askew
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By Lincoln Perry Thursday, May 5, 2022
The Scar on the Hand
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By Janna Malamud Smith Thursday, April 28, 2022
A Name Not Writ in Water
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Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph by Lucasta Miller
The Last Naturalist
A zoologist happiest in the fields and streams of Ohio wrote major works about the state’s birds and fishes
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American Mandarins
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Making the List
Finding the right page required centuries of experiment
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Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Ageby Dennis Duncan
From Cold War to Y2K
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The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman
