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  1. New Yorker Hiroshima Issue

    The entire contents of The New Yorker issue containing John Hersey's Hiroshima essay had an unfortunate cover illustration.
  2. — Czesław Miłosz

    The Captive Mind

    Essays out of central Europe during the First Cold War by one of Poland's leading intellectuals.
  3. — Hisham Matar

    The Return

    When Hisham Matar was a nineteen-year-old university student in England, his father went missing…
  4. — Thomas Piketty

    Capital in the Twenty-First Century

    Piketty argues that the rate of return on capital tends to be higher than the rate of economic growth.
  5. — George Orwell

    Homage to Catalonia

    Homage to Catalonia begins with Orwell's arrival in Barcelona in 1936, shortly after the outbreak of the civil war.
  6. — Henry Miller

    The Colossus of Maroussi

    The book chronicles Miller's experiences traveling through Greece in the late 1930s…
  7. — Aaron Friedberg

    A Contest for Supremacy

    Examines the socioeconomic forces at play in US-China relations. I do not share the author's conclusion, but it's an engaging book.
  8. — Janet Wallach

    Desert Queen

    The book provides a comprehensive account of Gertrude Bell's life, beginning with her privileged upbringing in a wealthy British family.
  9. — Viktor E. Frankl

    Man's Search for Meaning

    Viktor Frankl, an Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor wrote Man's Search for Meaning in 1946.