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Pain and Laughter

The Best of Sholom Aleichem

edited by Irving Howe, edited by Ruth Wisse


Heroes

Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed: The Story of the Village of Le Chambon and How Goodness Happened There

by Philip P. Hallie


Beyond the Evidence

Sleepless Nights

by Elizabeth Hardwick


Rediscovering Haydn

Haydn: Chronicle and Works, Vol. 2: Haydn at Eszterháza, 1766-1790

by H. C. Robbins Landon

Haydn: Chronicle and Works, Vol. 3: Haydn in England, 1791-1795

by H. C. Robbins Landon

Haydn: Chronicle and Works, Vol. 4: Haydn: The Years of "The Creation," 1796-1800

by H. C. Robbins Landon

Haydn: Chronicle and Works, Vol. 5: Haydn: The Late Years, 1801-1809

by H. C. Robbins Landon


He’ll Take Manhattan

Rem Koolhaas rhapsodizes on New York City’s built theatricality and its “culture of congestion,” but he does not reckon on their costs.

Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan

by Rem Koolhaas


Carnal Knowledge

The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative

by Frank Kermode


The Stains of Ireland

The Year of the French

by Thomas Flanagan


What Mary Ann Knew

Only Children

by Alison Lurie


Eternal Riddles

Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science

by Carl Sagan


The End of Servility

The End of the Old Order in Rural Europe

by Jerome Blum


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