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- Heaven Cracks, Earth Shakes
British travel writer James Palmer offers a quick, highly readable account of a pivotal moment in China’s recent past.
- Reader recommendation: To Be Sung Underwater
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- 'Alcatraz' author Michael Esslinger: Why a prison fascinates us
With a new TV show focused on the famous penitentiary, author and historian Michael Esslinger debunks some of the most enduring Alcatraz myths.