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The Year in Art: The Best Exhibits of 2012
The Best Movie of the Year: Michael Haneke's Amour
The Birth of American Finance
The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy By Thomas K. McCraw (Harvard University Press, 485 pp., $35) READ MORE >>
Geoff Dyer’s Renovation of Contemporary Nonfiction
Before 2013 begins, catch up on the best of 2012. From now until the New Year, we will be re-posting some of The New Republic’s most thought-provoking pieces of the year. Enjoy. Zona By Geoff Dyer (Pantheon, 228 pp., $24) READ MORE >>
The Private Sector Bail-Out of Europe’s Culture Industry
How Christianity Spread: the 1% and the 99% in Ancient Rome
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350–550 ADBy Peter Brown (Princeton University Press, 759 pp., $39.95) READ MORE >>
How Human Rights Became our Ideology
The International Human Rights Movement: A History By Aryeh Neier (Princeton University Press, 379 pp., $35) I. READ MORE >>
Blame it on the Reformation
The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized SocietyBy Brad S. Gregory (Harvard University Press, 574 pp., $39.95) I. THERE ARE ONLY so many ways of telling a story. Scan world literature and you discover a surprisingly small stock of narrative styles; narrow your search to historical writing and you find only a handful. READ MORE >>
The Origins of Foreigners
Rethinking the Other in AntiquityBy Erich S. Gruen (Princeton University Press, 415 pp., $39.50) READ MORE >>
