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Attacking Earth and Sun
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In the 1830s, to distract from political and economic instability at home, the French government decided to colonise Algeria, taking advantage and ownership ...Read Review
Summer of Freedom: How 1945 Changed the World
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Much has been written about WWII, but Hilmes’s slim book focuses specifically on the summer months of 1945, after Germany surrendered to the ...Read Review
Biography of a Dangerous Idea: A New History of Race from Louis XIV to Thomas Jefferson
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Andrew Curran, Professor at Wesleyan University, has published four academic books on the conceptualization of race in the 18th century. This book makes ...Read Review
Broken Truths
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Manlio Parrini is a long-retired film director who’s decided to make one more film, about Augusto De Angelis, the real pioneer of ...Read Review
Everything Is Photograph: A Life of André Kertész
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Shadows of a man holding a camera on a tripod in front of a door. A man’s face, half-hidden behind a row ...Read Review
The Dream of the Jaguar
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Miguel Bonnefoy, born in France to a Venezuelan mother and Chilean father, created this family saga beginning in the 1930s, to illuminate Venezuela’...Read Review
The Name on the Wall
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First, despite the publisher’s subtitle, this book is not a novel. Maybe it’s “creative nonfiction.” Hervé Le Tellier says: “True, I ...Read Review
Attacking Earth and Sun
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Set in the early 19th century, Attacking Earth and Sun explores the brutal realities of the French colonization of Algeria. The novel alternates ...Read Review
A Remarkable Man: Dr. Shuntaro Hida from Hiroshima to Fukushima
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A doctor and survivor of the Hiroshima bombing of August 6, 1945, tells his story of that fateful day and his years of advocating for ...Read Review
Lovers of Franz K.
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When Franz Kafka was dying, he made his best friend, Max Brod, promise that he would never publish his writings. Brod ignored his ...Read Review
