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Autumn of the Black Snake: The Creation of the U.S. Army and the Invasion That Opened the West
Hogeland’s book is a finely researched entry about a war about which few Americans are aware—the war to eradicate the…
Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, The History of an Idea
Ghetto is an analysis of the work of four prominent black intellectuals: Horace Cayton, Kenneth Clark, William Julius Wilson, and…
The Kingdom
Emmanuel Carrere is the classic apologist in this nonfiction account of his own personal spirituality and that of the apostles…
Heretics
In 1939, the S.S. Saint Louis arrived in Cuba with 900 Jewish refugees. They boarded hoping for a new life,…
Isadora
In her fifth book, Amelia Gray crafts a historical novel based on the life of the mother of modern dance,…
Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas de Quincey
Thomas De Quincey is most famous for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and for his friendship with the Romantic…
Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs
By any standards, Grigory Rasputin led an extraordinary life. He was born in 1869 in a remote Siberian village; during…
Naming Thy Name: Cross Talk in Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Elaine Scarry, a celebrated literary scholar known for her interdisciplinary approaches to the study of poetry, culture, philosophy, and art,…
A House Full of Daughters: A Memoir of Seven Generations
This book focuses on the women of the Sackville-West family through seven biographies. The first is that of Pepita, who…
Shakespeare in Swahililand: In Search of a Global Poet
This is a scholarly study of the influence of Shakespeare in eastern Africa, from the 19th century to the present.…
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