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John Taylor introduces readers to an amazing array of sensibilities and life histories in a babel of languages from an atlas of nations.
The Bloody Hand stands alongside other autobiographical classics devoted to the First World War.
This anthology is thought-provoking and often moving; a spearhead into a relatively undiscussed new demographic.
More than a mere novel, The Wake is really a medieval epic poem to an English way of life that would be erased forever.
Guitarist Jon Fine’s memoir is an intriguing blend of history, sociology, entertainment, and a healthy dose of after-hours pulp.
Tony Judt is an American treasure, in time he may prove as great to our country as George Orwell and Albert Camus are to theirs.
It is nice to know that there is someone as cultivated and enthusiastic about constitutional history as Professor Akhil Reed Amar.
In this entertaining satire of empire, Christian Kracht makes use of a nihilistic magic realism, without the sweetness one normally associates with that mode.
We will always need critics to show us how literature works by revering it rather than interrogating it as if it had committed a crime.

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