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An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings.

A revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister and a wholly different account of the founding of the United States.

How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? “All anyone can do is ask,” Lepore writes.