On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.

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An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learning

John Shelton Reed (born 1942) is an American sociologist and essayist, author or editor of 23 books, most of them dealing with the contemporary American South.

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The series has sold more than two hundred and seventy million copies since its launch, in 1979. It’s the fourth-best-selling children’s-book series of all time.

An era of remarkable prosperity has ended. Brad DeLong felt confident that the story started in 1870. The polymath economist was writing a book on economic modernity—about how humans transitioned from eking out an existence on our small planet to building a kind of utopia on it—and he saw an inflection point centuries after the emergence of capitalism and decades after the advent of manufacturing at scale.

The original book is far more grisly than the beloved Disney classic—and has an unsettling message about humanity.

In the first comprehensive accounting of the U.S. Supreme Court’s race-related jurisprudence, a distinguished historian and renowned civil rights lawyer scrutinize a legacy too often blighted by racial injustice.

From storytelling phenomenon The Moth, a new collection of unforgettable true stories about finding the courage to face the impossible, drawn from the very best ever told on their stages.

The Bone Season is a supernatural dystopian novel by British writer Samantha Shannon

The Remains of the Day is a 1989 novel by Nobel Prize-winning British writer Kazuo Ishiguro.