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Jurassic Lark
How Fast Did T. rex Run?: Unsolved Questions from the Frontiers of Dinosaur Science by david hone princeton university, 280 pages, $29.95 Sometime in the mid-seventeenth century, in a quarry...
The Truth About Bill Gates
What is it like to be a billionaire? I can imagine what it’s like to be a millionaire. I live in London, where millionaires are never very distant. A...
France’s Tragic Song
The Song of Rolandtranslated by dorothy l. sayerspenguin, 208 pages, $14 This year, France’s presidential election is being fought almost entirely on the terrain of national identity. Not on...
The End of the End of the End
The End of the End of History:Politics in the Twenty-First Centuryby alex hochuli, george hoare, and philip cunliffezer0, 208 pages, $19.95 About a decade ago, I would go to...
Grander and Weirder
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanityby david graeber and david wengrowfarrar, straus and giroux, 730 pages, $35 The Ur-Bororo are the most boring people in the world....
It’s Not All In Your Head
Leave Societyby tao linvintage, 368 pages, $16 r The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discoveryby ross douthatconvergent, 224 pages, $26 Emma Eckstein was a bleeder: She liked to...
How To Believe In Astrology
Postcolonial Astrology: Reading the Planets through Capital, Power, and Laborby alice sparkly katnorth atlantic, 336 pages, $17.95 Does anyone believe in astrology anymore? Is there anyone who still really thinks...
Infinite Hitlers
Civilizationsby laurent binettranslated by sam taylorfarrar, straus and giroux, 320 pages, $27 In 1980, the soldiers of the Third Reich took Bolivia. After the huge tank battles that had brought...
On Demons
Demons:A Novel in Three Partsby fyodor dostoevsky translated by richard pevear and larissa volokhonsky vintage, 776 pages, $27 According to the Talmud, the demons are more numerous than we...
