Posts Tagged ‘excerpts’
Nothing Ever Dies
Read an excerpt from Viet Thanh Nguyen’s new book about Vietnam and the memory of war
Read MoreThe Mechanical Horse
Read an excerpt from Margaret Guroff’s new history of the bicycle in America
Read MoreThe Rarest Bird in the World
Read an excerpt from Vernon R. L. Head’s new memoir about the search for the Nechisar Nightjar
Read MoreAlmost Home
Read an excerpt from Githa Hariharan’s new collection of travel essays
Read MoreGraveyard Clay and The Dirty Dust
Compare two translations of “Cré na Cille,” Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Irish masterpiece
Read MoreThe Profiteers
Read an excerpt from Sally Denton’s book about the world-building Bechtel Corporation
Read MoreYou Could Look It Up
Read an excerpt from Jack Lynch’s new ode to the encyclopedia
Read MoreThe Firebrand and the First Lady
Read an excerpt from Patricia Bell-Scott’s book about Eleanor Roosevelt and Pauli Murray
Read MoreFive Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich
Read an excerpt from Mary Frances Berry’s new book about vote buying
Read MoreThe Society of Genes
Read an excerpt from Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher’s new book on evolutionary biology
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