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Pantheon’s founder, Kurt Wolff, was born in Germany in 1887. He emigrated to the United States in 1941 and began publishing major works in translation. Today its authors include, Julia Glass, James Gleick, Ha Jin, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Alexander McCall Smith, and graphic novelists Marjane Satrapi and Art Spiegelman. Read more
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White House Burning by Simon Johnson and James Kwak
America is mired in debt—more than $30,000 for every man, woman, and child. Bitter fighting over deficits, taxes, and spending bedevils Washington, D.C., even as partisan gridlock has brought the government to the brink of default. Yet the more politicians on both sides of the aisle rant and the citizenry fumes, the more things seem to remain the same.
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Easy Money by Jens Lapidus
From one of Sweden’s most successful defense lawyers comes an unflinching look at Stockholm’s underworld, told from the perspective of the mob bosses, the patsies, and the thugs who help operate its twisted justice system.
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The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection by Alexander McCall Smith
In this latest episode in the beloved, best-selling series, the kindest and best detective in Botswana faces a tricky situation when her personal and professional lives become entangled.
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Pantheon at Center for Fiction in New York City: Alan Lightman, Thomas Mallon, and Peter Behrens
The Center for Fiction in New York City recently hosted events with Alan Lightman (Mr g) and Thomas Mallon (Watergate). Click through to watch the videos, and if you’ll be in the area on April 9th, stop by to see Peter Behrens (The O’Briens)! You can also see Knopf author Louis Begley on March 22nd.
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That's How I Roll by Andrew Vachss
Andrew Vachss, the master of hard-boiled fiction, returns with a deeply revealing new novel, That’s How I Roll, about an assassin whose love forced him to kill his own conscience.
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Language by Daniel L. Everett
A bold and provocative study that presents language not as an innate component of the brain—as most linguists do—but as an essential tool unique to each culture worldwide.
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Another Time, Another Life by Leif GW Persson
In 1975, six young people stormed the West German embassy in Stockholm, taking the entire staff hostage. They demanded the immediate release of members of the Baader- Meinhof group being held as prisoners in West Germany, but twelve hours into the siege, the embassy was blown up, two hostages were dead, and many others were injured, including the captors. Thus begins Leif GW Persson’s Another Time, Another Life.
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Watch Jonathan Haidt on MSNBC's Morning Joe
Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind, appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe to talk about Newt Gingrich, moral psychology, and the Democrat/Republican divide. Video after the jump.
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Religion for Atheists by Alain De Botton
What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? The long-running and often boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved forward by Alain de Botton’s inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are entirely false—but that it still has some very important things to teach the secular world.
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The Undead by Dick Teresi
Important and provocative, The Undead examines why even with the tools of advanced technology, what we think of as life and death, consciousness and nonconsciousness, is not exactly clear and how this problem has been further complicated by the business of organ harvesting.
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