Fool by Peter Andersson
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A study of what it meant to be a fool at King Henry VIII’s court.
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Schubert: A Musical Wayfarer by Lorraine Byrne Bodley
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A lively, knowledgeable biography of the great composer.
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The Marriage Question by Clare Carlisle
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A philosopher considers how George Eliot wrote about—and experienced—marriage.
Read MoreThe Visionaries by Wolfram Eilenberger
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A group biography of some early 20th century philosophers.
Read MoreInto the Bright Sunshine by Samuel G. Freedman
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A new history of Hubert Humphrey’s social crusading.
Read MoreOrwell: The New Life by DJ Taylor
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DJ Taylor’s new elaboration on his much-praised life of George Orwell.
Read MoreHow Not To Kill Yourself by Clancy Martin
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A brutally personal look at suicide and alcoholism.
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American Breakdown by Jennifer Lunden
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The author’s struggle with chronic illness prompts her to search for examples buried in history.
Read MoreBruno Schulz by Benjamin Balint
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A new book tells the story of murdered writer Bruno Schulz and the murals he created to save his life.
Read MoreGeorge VI and Elizabeth by Sally Bedell Smith
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A new book telling the story of the “We Four” Windsor family during WWII.
Read MoreNinth Building by Zou Jingzhi
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The Cultural Revolution looms large in Zou Jingzhi’s newly-translated novel.
Read MorePortraits of Learned Men by Paolo Giovio
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An elegant new I Tatti volume of Giovio’s profiles of men of letters.
Read MoreThe Story of Tutankhamun by Garry Shaw
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Some of the latest thinking about the most famous pharaoh of them all.
Read MoreTravels with Tocqueville Beyond America by Jeremy Jennings
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As a new book wonderfully shows, long after “Democracy in America,” Alexis de Tocqueville still restlessly roamed the world.
Read MoreSpillane: King of Pulp Fiction by Max Allan Collins & James L. Traylor
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A new biography of the crime novelist Mickey Spillane.
Read MoreTough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer by Richard Bradford
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A contentious new biography of the author of “Tough Guys Don’t Dance”.
Read MoreBe Not Afraid of Life, edited by John Kaag & Jonathan Van Belle
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A new selection from the writings of William James.
Read MoreLydia Maria Child by Lydia Moland
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A big, generous new biography of abolitionist Lydia Maria Child.
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