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Recent Reads




Michael Herr, Dispatches, 1977

Stanley Karnow, In our image: America's empire in the Philippines, 1990

Ian McEwan, Amsterdam, 1999

Edward Schatz, ed., Political ethnography: What immersion contributes to the study of power, 2009

Kevin Starr, California: A history, 2005

Paul M. Handley, The king never smiles: A biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej, 2006

Jay Taylor, The generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the struggle for modern China, 2009

Justin Wintle, Perfect hostage: A life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's prisoner of conscience, 2007

Gao Wenqian, Peter Rand, and Lawrence R. Sullivan, Zhou Enlai: The last perfect revolutionary, 2007

Lorenz M. Lüthi, The Sino-Soviet split: Cold War in the communist world, 2008

Ian McEwan, On Chesil beach, 2007

Jeffrey Toobin, The nine: Inside the secret world of the Supreme Court, 2008

Barack Obama, Dreams from my father: A story of race and inheritance, 1995

Haruki Murakami, The wind-up bird chronicle, 1997