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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.”
British historian Adam Zamoyski has drawn a portrait of Napoleon that is neither flattering nor diminishing.
Journalist Ian Nathan presents Peter Jackson’s trials in bringing Tolkien’s books to film as if he was writing a spy thriller.
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.
In Washington Black novelist Esi Edugyan has defied the cliché of the escaped slave discovering freedom.
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.
Whether through disregard, willful ignorance, or strategic elimination, Michael Lewis gives us a glimpse of how parts of the government are being hollowed out.
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.
Claire Tomalin narrates her story with a prototypically English stiff upper lip, and a reticence about the personal.
The strength of The Mars Room is its compelling vision of the stultifying and claustrophobic underworld of women in prison.
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