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The Bitter End

Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944–1945

by Max Hastings

The End: Hamburg 1943

by Hans Erich Nossack, translated from the German and with a foreword by Joel Agee, and with photographs by Erich Andres


The Pritchett Sound

V.S. Pritchett: A Working Life

by Jeremy Treglown


Fathers and Son

Omaha Blues: A Memory Loop

by Joseph Lelyveld


The Moment of Truth?

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

by Malcolm Gladwell

The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger as Your Brain Grows Older

by Elkhonon Goldberg


Where the Fun Starts

Magic Seeds

by V.S. Naipaul


A World of His Own

Manny Farber: About Face

Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies

by Manny Farber


The Making of a Disaster

Iron Tears: America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire: 1775–1783

by Stanley Weintraub


The Magic of ‘I’

The Ethics of Identity

by Kwame Anthony Appiah


The Art of Consolation

Poets Thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats

by Helen Vendler


Mystery Man

The Life of Bach

by Peter Williams


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