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The Japanese Way of Justice: Prosecuting Crime in Japan

review by Harry Reynolds

An exemplary examination of the Japanese prosecutorial system.

Jesus and Yahweh

review by Evan Willner

A moving bookend to Bloom’s career.

Jewish history, Jewish religion

review by Noel Rooney

"Every nation, religion, and culture shrouds its history in a miasma of myth and legend; the job of a good historian, in the first place, is to see through the fog and get at the facts."

Journalism, truth or dare?

review by Noel Rooney

A natural history of the second-oldest profession.

Just people

review by Douglas Messerli

Two new books on the American civil rights movement restate Gunnar Myrdal's prophetic argument that the issue of race is not an African-American problem but a white one.

Kali Yuga on the Rio Pinheiros

review by Tom Bradley

The only genuinely new literary form to appear in the last 70 years: mathematical pornography

Kapuściński's travels with Herodotus

review by Robert Philbin

Neither the Polish journalist nor the Greek writer produced finished "history" in the professional sense.

Kids first

review by Steve Danzis

A politically naive and untested educational idea

King Mob

review by Andy Worthington

A popular history of rioting.

King of the Mountain

review by Seamus Sweeney

Boys will be boys...