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Leonard Cohen reinforces this dedication to lyricism with striking humility in his final book.
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These extraordinary books from world-class writers are about reviving, through words, a now-derelict town and the lives of its ten thousand murdered Jews.
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“I like implication very much; there’s a fiction of implication that I think I’ve championed over the fiction of explication.”
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British historian Adam Zamoyski has drawn a portrait of Napoleon that is neither flattering nor diminishing.
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Journalist Ian Nathan presents Peter Jackson’s trials in bringing Tolkien’s books to film as if he was writing a spy thriller.
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The volume is devoted to print ads and event flyers for local eateries, concert venues, theaters, stores, and community events that were printed in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s.
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In Washington Black novelist Esi Edugyan has defied the cliché of the escaped slave discovering freedom.
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Brian Phillips uses the essay form to map the limits of America’s cultural-historical imagination, from our highest achievements to our kitschiest expressions of who we think we are, and who we think everyone else is.
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Whether through disregard, willful ignorance, or strategic elimination, Michael Lewis gives us a glimpse of how parts of the government are being hollowed out.
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In his exhilarating translation of Pan Tadeusz, Bill Johnston captures Adam Mickiewicz’s wild fluctuations of register and brilliant associative riffs. The volume recently won the 2019 National Translation Award in Poetry.
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