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Charitable Gifts are Not Always for the Public Good
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An Elegy for a "Dream So Close that He Could Hardly Fail to Grasp It"
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And Elisabeth Rosenthal's Much-Needed Primer on How to Fix Health Care
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An Author Who Jumped From Self-Publishing to the New York Times Best Sellers List
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Her Constant Theme: All of Western Civilization is the Triumph of the Apollonians over the Dionysians
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And a Sympathetic Look at the Much-Maligned Prince Charles
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A Literary Critic Returns to Her Early Fascination with the Visual Arts
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And How Income Inequality Threatens American Democracy
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Syrian-American Alia Malek Explores a World Her Family Left Behind
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With Cartoon-Like Illustrations that Bring the Horror to Life
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And a Novel about the Roiling Campus Politics at a New England College
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A Sheriff Who Showed the Importance of Standing Up to Thuggery
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Books from Arthur C. Clarke, Ursula K. Le Guin, T.H. White, and More
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And a former New York Times China Hand's Advice on Dealing with China
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Her Notebook Gives Insight Into the Technique of One of Our Greatest Writers
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An Oboist Who Was Powerfully Drawn to Music as a Child, and Healed by It
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And a Liberian-Born New York Times Journalist Looks at Her Home Country
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Stories of Vietnamese-Americans that Contain Universal Truths
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Oh for the Days When a Supreme Court Appointment Moved the Nation Forward
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And the Scourge of For-Profit Higher Education
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