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How Fast Did T. rex Run?: Unsolved Questions from the Frontiers of Dinosaur Science by david hone princeton university, 280 pages, $29.95 Sometime in the mid-­seventeenth century, in a quarry...

What is it like to be a billionaire? I can imagine what it’s like to be a millionaire. I live in London, where millionaires are never very distant. A...

The Song of Rolandtranslated by dorothy l. sayerspenguin, 208 pages, $14 This year, France’s presidential election is being fought almost entirely on the terrain of national identity. Not on...

The End of the End of History:Politics in the Twenty-First Centuryby alex hochuli, george hoare, and philip cunliffezer0, 208 pages, $19.95 About a decade ago, I would go to...

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanityby david graeber and david wengrowfarrar, straus and giroux, 730 pages, $35 The Ur-Bororo are the most boring people in the world....

Leave Society by tao lin vintage, 368 pages, $16 The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery by ross douthat convergent, 224 pages, $26 Emma Eckstein was a bleeder:...

Postcolonial Astrology: Reading the Planets through Capital, Power, and Laborby alice sparkly katnorth atlantic, 336 pages, $17.95 Does anyone believe in astrology anymore? Is there anyone who still really thinks...

Civilizationsby laurent binettranslated by sam taylorfarrar, straus and giroux, 320 pages, $27 In 1980, the soldiers of the Third Reich took Bolivia. After the huge tank battles that had brought...

Demons:A Novel in Three Partsby fyodor dostoevsky translated by richard pevear and larissa volokhonsky vintage, 776 pages, $27 According to the Talmud, the demons are more numerous than we...