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• Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov
• Vodolazkin: NYRB
• Tuchman: A Distant Mirror
• The Bible
• Alphabet: NYRB
• Calvino: The Written World and the Unwritten World
• Fukuyama: WSJ
• Wilderness: NYRB
• Smil: Growth
• Hamilton: The Greek Way
• Practical Knowledge: NYRB
• Gilgamesh: NYRB
• March: Exploration, Exploitation
• Meyer & Rowan: Organizational Structure as Myth, Ceremony
• Misreading: NYRB
• Kissinger, Schmidt, Huttenlocher on Generative AI: WSJ
• Hamming: Learning to Learn
• Molière -- The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations

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