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This much anticipated novel comes from the mind of Pulitzer-Prize and National Book Award finalist, Laila Lalami. The brilliantly twisted piece of literary science fiction is a timely examination ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

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