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The author of Square Haunting tackles another giant of modernism - the sibyl of Montparnasse, l'ogresse de la rue du Fleurus - with intelligence, wit and access to new material.

Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife

Francesca Wade

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A new history of North and South America charting their relationship across the centuries, and exploring how they have defined themselves through engagement with and in opposition to each ot... read more

America, America: A New History of the New World

Greg Grandin

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Devised by FDR in the 1930s, 'national security' was designed to keep Americans safe everywhere. This brilliant study of the militarised, global policy that ensued is very pertinent now.

Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security ...

Andrew Preston

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Lewis (of Liar's Poker fame and many others) asked several writers for pieces on different aspects of government, cogs great and small. Contributors include John Lanchester, Geraldine Brooks... read more

Who is government? The Untold Story of Public Service ...

Michael Lewis

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Summer in New York: our two protagonists catch one another's fancy while they wait to be selected as jurors. Another novella by the author of Call Me By Your Name and many others.

Room on the Sea

André Aciman

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A family gathering unravels over a long, hot afternoon in New England in the 80s. A fiendishly good debut.

Idle Grounds

Krystelle Bamford

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A re-issue of this excellent biography in which Solnit explores how the British photographer's images of high-speed movement captured in late C19th California were created on the cusp of the... read more

River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West ...

Rebecca Solnit

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When this adventurous seeker after the authentic and delicious loaded her saddle bags and toottled off to France to research One More Croissant for the Road, the nation was confident she wou... read more

Peach Street to Lobster Lane: Coast to coast in search of real America ...

Felicity Cloake

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An urgent, vital account of the immigration crisis from a New Yorker journalist whose been covering it for nearly a decade.

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and ...

Jonathan Blitzer

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Anyone who read Christopher de Hamel's last book, or Alexandra Lapierre's novel Belle Greene, will know that the letters from Pierpont Morgan's mixed-race librarian/buyer to Berenson will be... read more

Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Lett ...

Deborah Parker

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A re-issue of McCarthy's brilliant memoir - so painful and unjust that Anita Brookner held that Jane Eyre had got away lightly in comparison. First published in 1957.

Memories Of A Catholic Girlhood

Mary McCarthy

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A Canadian architect falls from grace after accepting a dubious commission. Glamorous and propulsive, this won multiple French prizes and was longlisted for the Goncourt.

May Our Joy Endure

Kev Lambert

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A middle-aged man takes to the road after his children have left home and his wife has had an affair...

The Rest of Our Lives

Benjamin Markovits

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A handsome illustrated volume that looks at the relations Frick and his daughter had with European dealers and also with their decorators (such as Elsie de Wolfe).

The Fricks Collect: An American Family and the Evolution of Taste Duri ...

Ian Wardropper

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Edward Sherrif Curtis (1868-1952) spent decades photographing North America's indigenous peoples and their vanishing culture. Large format and tremendous.

Edward S. Curtis: The North American Indian – Complete Portfolio ...

Peter Walther

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Amid the seedy, damp squalor of life on the Tennessee river, a man lives on a disintegrating houseboat. Around him others wander the underbelly of Knoxville like shadowed demons in a halluci... read more

Suttree

Cormac McCarthy

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A sweep of Becker's finest images from the 1970s to the 2010s: Ed Ruscha, Arthur Miller, Jackie Onassis, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cindy Sherman, Andre Leon Talley, Francois Truffaut, Gore Vidal, Dia... read more

Jonathan Becker: Lost Time

Mark Holborn

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During his terms as PM, Churchill spent a surprising amount of time with Roosevelt and then Eisenhower. This is a careful study of his influence on US foreign policy.

Mr. Churchill in the White House: The Untold Story of a Prime Minister ...

Robert Schmuhl

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Blowing hot and cold: an intense look at the relationship between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, using previously unpublished letters and other sources to explore their closeness and their late... read more

Didion & Babitz

Lili Anolik

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From WW2, when her father-in-law Winston Churchill engaged her as a 'secret weapon', to her later support of Bill Clinton, Harriman was an extraordinarily powerful force in political and soc... read more

Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Seduc ...

Sonia Purnell

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In 2001, after 8 years in the White House, Clinton was the ex-President; he was only 54. He's been busy since then, and has plenty to say.

Citizen: My Life After the White House

Bill Clinton

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Interviews and newly available documents make this a substantial biography of the Hollywood actor who became an inscrutable President, fixed in his belief that the world could be divided int... read more

Reagan: His Life and Legend

Max Boot

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The veteran journalist lifts the curtain on Biden's behind-the-scenes diplomacy with Russia, Ukraine and the Middle East amidst the fevered politics of the approaching presidential election.

War

Bob Woodward

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Inspector Gamache is having a quiet time enjoying his garden in Three Pines, Quebec. It's safe to presume that he won't enjoy it for long!

The Grey Wolf

Louise Penny

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Candela designed some of the most archetypal Park Avenue and Fifth Avenue apartment blocks. This lavish large format book contains many photos, monochrome and colour, of exteriors and interi... read more

Rosario Candela & The New York Apartment: 1927-1937 The Architect ...

David Netto

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The many houses of the hugely successful American industrialist and art collector, presented with photographs, drawings, letters, designer's notes... Very handsome.

The Henry Clay Frick Houses: Architecture, Interiors, Landscapes in th ...

Martha Frick Symington Sanger

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The autodidact cultural critic has written an exhilarating and evocative memoir of his youth, the unstable fortunes of his family, and the diverse artistic tribes of NY before the catastroph... read more

Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of ’70s Ne ...

Guy Trebay

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Another huge novel from the author of City On Fire. A teenage girl and her father navigate relationships, addiction and other threats to serenity in New York.

The Second Coming

Garth Risk Hallberg

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In October 1960, James Baldwin diagnosed the trouble with American society as 'a failure of the masculine sensibility.' This is a study of the relationship of Tennessee Williams, Carson McCu... read more

Strange Relations: Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century Ameri ...

Ralf Webb

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As the great Gore Vidal cheerfully pointed out, the CIA was an instrument of US imperialism.

The CIA: An Imperial History

Hugh Wilford

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A short, elegant account of America's dismaying advance towards autocracy.

Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart Again ...

Robert Kagan

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A spin on Huckleberry Finn, this harrowing (and characteristically witty) account of his adventures is narrated by James, a runaway slave. It's a scary reflection on racism today.

James

Percival Everett

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Matar's photographs at sites of lethal police violence in the US and her fastidious research make for a quietly devastating critique. The formality of her images and the directness of her g... read more

My America

Diana Matar

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A many-layered memoir from the Pulitzer-winning author of The Sympathizer: the American dream, the Vietnam War, the life of the refugee, adoption, violence, identity.

A Man of Two Faces

Viet Thanh Nguyen

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Joseph Seligman arrived in the US with $100 sewn into the lining of his clothes; the Lehman brothers followed; then Marcus Goldman and the 'forty-eighters' fleeing European anti-semitism. A ... read more

The Money Kings: The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transform ...

Daniel Schulman

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1990s' Chicago: two students fall in love. Twenty years on, theirs is a suburban life of detoxes and home improvements. A warm and sardonic novel by the author of The Nix.

Wellness

Nathan Hill

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