Reviewed in the LRB - Vol. 45 No. 15

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Translated by Paul EprileThe south of France, 1950: A solitary vagabond walks through the villages, towns, valleys, and foothills of the region between northern Provence and the Alps. He picks up work along the way and spends the…

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Translated by Gini AlhadeffEven among Fleur Jaeggy’s singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar book. Concerned with wealth’s loneliness and odd emotional poverty, this early novel is…

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The first book to tell the story of day-to-day life on the nuclear home front - from the host of the #1 Apple podcast Atomic Hobo'Thrilling and profoundly important' Juliet Nicolson, author of FrostquakeThe atomic bombs of 1945 changed war…

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What did it mean to live with fascism, communism, and totalitarianism in modern Italy? And what should we learn from the experiences of a martyred liberal democrat father and his communist son? Through the prism of a single, exceptional…

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SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE WEEKOf all revenge, the greatest is this: that which cometh suddenly, without expectation.AMBITION REVENGEPower is shifting. Queen Elizabeth I is dying, James waiting to become King. Everywhere, there is…

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“The Meddlers is an eye-opening, essential new history that places our international financial institutions in the transition from a world defined by empire to one of nation states enmeshed in the world economy.”—Adam…

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2023Winner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyWinner of the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History and DiplomacyWinner of the American History Book PrizeShortlisted for the…

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‘Dizzying and fragrant . . . truly a captivating achievement!’ Aimee Nezhukumatathil‘If you read this book you will be changed . . . this book feels like an actual elixir’ Kiese Laymon‘A fascinating tale…

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First published in 1967, Ernest Cole’s House of Bondage has been lauded as one of the most significant photobooks of the twentieth century, revealing the horrors of apartheid to the world for the first time and influencing generations…

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Translated by Bill JohnstonEnnemonde Girard: Obese. Toothless. Brilliant. Loving mother and murderous wife: a character like none other in literature. In telling us Ennemonde’s astounding story of undetected crimes, Jean…

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The devolution of the Sullivan Institute, from psychoanalytic organization to insular, radical cult.In the middle of the Ozzie and Harriet 1950s, the birth control pill was introduced and a maverick psychoanalytic institute, the…

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From the brilliantly original novelist and cultural critic Lynne Tillman comes Mothercare, an honest and beautifully written account of a sudden, drastically changed relationship to one’s mother, and of the time and labor spent…

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Translated by Alyson WatersA King Alone is set in a remote Alpine village that is cut off from the world by rugged mountains and by long months when the ground is covered with snow and the heavens with cloud. One such winter,…