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A Tragic Grandeur

The Letters of Robert Lowell

edited by Saskia Hamilton


Virtual Violence

The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa

by Yasunari Kawabata, translated from the Japanese by Alisa Freedman, with a foreword and afterword by Donald Richie and illustrations by Ota Saburo

Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture

Catalog of the exhibition edited by Murakami Takashi


The Pleasure of Their Company

The Age of Conversation

by Benedetta Craveri, translated from the Italian by Teresa Waugh


In Love with Jane

A Fine Brush on Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen

by Richard Jenkyns

Novel Relations: The Transformation of Kinshipin English Literature and Culture, 1748–1818

by Ruth Perry

Jane Austen

by Darryl Jones

Searching for Jane Austen

by Emily Auerbach

Jane Austen and the Enlightenment

by Peter Knox-Shaw

Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets

by William Deresiewicz

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The Great Victorian Abroad

David Livingstone: Mission and Empire

by Andrew Ross


The Wilderness of Solitude

Maps for Lost Lovers

by Nadeem Aslam


Another Neverland

Jerry Engels

by Thomas Rogers

At the Shores

by Thomas Rogers


Wonderful Town?

Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430–1950

by Mark Mazower


The Royal Blues

Dinah Washington’s music is fiery, uncompromising, and devoid of self-pity. She was a rarity among singers, male or female, in the popular music of her era: an unflinching, even merciless figure who was also sensual and musically sophisticated.

Queen: The Life and Music of Dinah Washington

by Nadine Cohodas


Slouching Toward Athens

From Athens to Auschwitz: The Uses of History

by Christian Meier, translated from the German by Deborah Lucas Schneider


The Custom of the Country

The History of Love

by Nicole Krauss


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