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The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head
“[A] study as lively, lucid and flat-out enjoyable as any literary biography this year. . . . Never before has Kafka seemed endearing; never before has he even seemed appreciably human. Mr. Begley’s triumph is to revive the man beneath the iconography, and to present afresh for a 21st-century audience that maddening, addled soul in all its twitchy glory.” —New York Observer
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Apples Are from Kazakhstan
“Robbins’s travelogue enthusiastically and infectiously blends history, observation, and mini biographies. . . . A captivating read notable for off-the-cuff candor and measured, eloquent prose.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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“Socialism Is Great!”
“Beautiful . . . a remarkable memoir. . . . A notable historical document and a vivid, affecting portrait of a young woman’s resolve.” —Kirkus Reviews
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Year Million
Leading and up-and-coming scientists and science writers cast their minds one million years into the future to imagine the fate of the human and/or extraterrestrial galaxy