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    Frankenstein: Introduction by Wendy Lesser

    Mary Shelley

    A young Swiss scientist’s discovery of the cause of generation leads to the creation of a hideous monster.

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    Nothing Remains the Same

    Wendy Lesser

    Revisiting her favorite books after 20 or 30 years, Lesser is stirred by the changes she finds–in the books, in herself, and in the wider world.

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    Room for Doubt

    Wendy Lesser

    Room for Doubt is Wendy Lesser’s account of three separate but interlocking occasions for doubt: her stay in Berlin, a city she had never expected to visit; her unwritten book…

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    Amateur: An Independent Life of Letters

    Wendy Lesser

    In this unusual memoir of the life of the mind, the founding editor of The Threepenny Review reflects upon the choices she has made in pursuit of her vocation as…

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    Scandinavian Noir: In Pursuit of a Mystery

    Wendy Lesser

    A deep dive into Scandinavian crime fiction and Scandinavian culture at large

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    The Genius of Language: Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother Tongue

    Wendy Lesser

    Wendy Lesser-a celebrated essayist in her own right-has put together a rich and often surprising work, a book brimming with pleasures for lovers of literature, travel, memoir, and, above all…

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    Why I Read

    Wendy Lesser

    The author’s extraordinary alertness, intelligence, and curiosity have made her one of America’s most significant cultural critics, writes Stephen Greenblatt. In this book, she draws on a lifetime of pleasure…

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    You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn

    Wendy Lesser

    The first biography of the iconic American architect that delves fully into his life and work.

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    Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets

    Wendy Lesser

    Leads the reader through the personal, political, and professional events that shaped the music composer Dmitri Shostakovich’s singular, emblematic twentieth-century life.

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    Jerome Robbins: A Life in Dance

    Wendy Lesser

    A lively and inspired biography celebrating the centennial of this master choreographer, dancer, and stage director

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    Pictures at an Execution

    Wendy Lesser

    This book is about murder-in life and in art-and about how we look at it and feel about it. At the center of Lesser’s investigation is a groundbreaking legal case…

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    You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn

    Wendy Lesser

    The first biography of the iconic American architect that delves fully into his life and work.

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    You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn

    Wendy Lesser

    The first biography of the iconic American architect that delves fully into his life and work.

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    You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn

    Wendy Lesser

    The first biography of the iconic American architect that delves fully into his life and work.

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    Table Talk: From the Threepenny Review

    Wendy Lesser,Jennifer Zahrt,Mimi Chubb

    Table Talk is a portable dinner party and a book to read alone while laughing out loud. Table Talk is a salon attended by your smartest friends and by all…

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    The Lesser Good: The Problem of Justice in Plato and Levinas

    Wendy C. Hamblet

    The Lesser Good represents a timely meditation on the incapacity of mere laws and state politics to adequately address the ethical exigencies that arise in human life. Through the philosophies…

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