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The Moralist

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson, translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland

The Girl Who Played with Fire

by Stieg Larsson, translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

by Stieg Larsson, translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland


Dreams from Underground

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

a film directed by Werner Herzog


Storm Over Syria

The Other Side of the Mirror: An American Travels Through Syria

by Brooke Allen


The Charms of Eleanor

Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage

by Hazel Rowley

Eleanor Roosevelt: Transformative First Lady

by Maurine H. Beasley


Looking into the Beyond

Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century

an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City,


The Genius of Buster

The Best of Buster

twelve feature-length and twelve short films by Buster Keaton,

A Hard Act to Follow

a documentary directed by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill (1987)

Buster Keaton: Interviews

edited by Kevin W. Sweeney

The Fall of Buster Keaton: His Films for M-G-M, Educational Pictures, and Columbia

by James L. Neibaur

Lost Keaton: Sixteen Comedy Shorts, 1934–37

Kino, DVD, $34.95

The General

a film directed by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman (1926)

Steamboat Bill, Jr.

a film directed by Charles F. Reisner (1928)

Sherlock, Jr./Three Ages

films directed by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline (1924/1923)

Our Hospitality

a film directed by Buster Keaton and Jack Blystone (1923)

The Short Films Collection, 1920–1923

nineteen films directed by Buster Keaton and others

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The Uses of Error

by Frank Kermode

Bury Place Papers: Essays from the London Review of Books

by Frank Kermode

The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative

by Frank Kermode

Shakespeare's Language

by Frank Kermode


Master of the Downbeat

Pulse

by Julian Barnes


The Wolf Man’s Revenge

Monsters of the Gévaudan: The Making of a Beast

by Jay M. Smith


Consolations

Heavenly Questions

by Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Ghost in a Red Hat

by Rosanna Warren


Bollocks on Broadway

Jerusalem

by Jez Butterworth


War by Fops and Fools

The Crimean War: A History

by Orlando Figes

The Crimean War in the British Imagination

by Stefanie Markovits


The Mystery of Consciousness Continues

Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain

by Antonio Damasio


Afghan Treasures

Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World

an exhibition at the British Museum, London,


Love and Murder in Witless Bay

What Is Left the Daughter

by Howard Norman


Wise Men Against the Grain

Through the History of the Cold War: The Correspondence of George F. Kennan and John Lukacs

edited by John Lukacs

George F. Kennan and the Origins of Containment, 1944–1946: The Kennan–Lukacs Correspondence

with an introduction by John Lukacs


The Very Violent Road to America

Before the Revolution: America's Ancient Pasts

by Daniel K. Richter


Mixing Mystery and Ingenuity

The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation

edited by Greg Delanty and Michael Matto,


Kissinger and China

On China

by Henry Kissinger


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