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CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, The Secret World: A History of Intelligence “Both brilliant in its sweep and near-miraculous in the detail and confident judgments provided on two and a half millennia of spying . . . . A crowning triumph of one of the most adventurous scholars of the security world.”—Financial Times (London)

ARNOLD A. OFF NE R, Hubert Humphrey: The Conscience of the Country“An outstanding account of the life and accomplishments of a man who was my friend and my hero. This book captures Hubert Humphrey’s passion and unwavering commitment to our nation’s highest ideals.”—President Jimmy Carter

KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD, Inadvertent, translated from the Norwegian by Ingvild Burkey Q The second book in the Why I Write series provides generous insight into the creative process of the award-winning Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard Why I Write Q

JOHN J. ME AR SHE I MER, The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities“This is the best of the many books that seek to explain how and why American foreign policy has gone so disastrously wrong . . . . [It] hits the sweet spot where theory meets the chaos of today’s world.”—Stephen Kinzer, author of The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War

MIC AH GOODMAN, Catch -67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War, translated byEyl on

Levy “One of the rare instances in which a work of serious non-fiction becomes a genuine best-seller, and Q deservedly so . . . . [This] book won’t bring an end to what has long been [Israel’s] most urgent national conversation, but it does demonstrate, by both precept and example, how best to participate in it.”—Jewish Review of Books

SUSAN NAPIER, Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art “Hayao Mi ya zak ii st he pre-eminent animation auteur of our times. Susan Napier powerfully and intelligently captures and describes the complexities and contradictions that lie at the heart of both Mr. Miyazaki and his creations.”—Neil Gaiman

NICK CHAT ER, The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain“A superb ex position of scientific findings.”—Steven Poole, The Guardian (London) “A remarkable book.”—Joshua Tenenbaum, Q Massachusetts Institute of Technology

PATRICK MODIANO, SleepofMemory, translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti Q “Once again, Modiano masterfully demonstrates the ‘art of memory’ that won him the Nobel and accounts for the engrossing charm of all his work.”—Nelly Kaprièlian, Vogue (France) Q The Margellos World Republic of Letters