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The Lie in the Soul

The Drowned and the Saved

by Primo Levi, translated by Raymond Rosenthal


Aerie Visions

The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon

by Michael S. Sherry


Bumps on the Head

Pseudo-Science and Society in Nineteenth-Century America

edited by Arthur Wrobel


Let Handel Be Handel

Handel's Operas: 1704–1726

by Winton Dean and John Merrill Knapp


Going Every Sort of Hog

Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life

by Claire Tomalin


Spying on the Neighbors

A History of Private Life Vol. II: Revelations of the Medieval World

edited by Georges Duby, translated by Arthur Goldhammer


‘The Check Is in the Mail’

Spiegel: The Man Behind the Pictures

by Andrew Sinclair


The Case for Dryden

John Dryden and His World

by James Anderson Winn


What Keeps the Japanese Going?

Imperialist Japan: The Yen to Dominate

by Michael Montgomery

Occupation

by John Toland

A Cultural History of Postwar Japan: 1945–1980

by Shunsuke Tsurumi

Different People: Pictures of Some Japanese

by Donald Richie

Remaking Japan: The American Occupation As New Deal

by Theodore Cohen, edited by Herbert Passin

The Japanese Educational Challenge: A Commitment to Children

by Merry White

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