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Winslow Homer: The Stern Facts

Near Andersonville: Winslow Homer's Civil War

by Peter H. Wood


The New New Orleans

If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise

a film directed by Spike Lee

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

a film directed by Spike Lee

Race

a film directed by Katherine Cecil

Trouble the Water

a film directed by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal


A Genius Ill-Served

Poems

by Elizabeth Bishop

Prose

by Elizabeth Bishop, edited by Lloyd Schwartz

Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence

edited by Joelle Biele

One Art/ Elizabeth Bishop

Letters selected and edited by Robert Giroux

Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose & Letters

edited by Robert Giroux and Lloyd Schwartz

Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments

edited by Alice Quinn

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Our Universities: How Bad? How Good?

Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses

by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa

Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids—And What We Can Do About It

by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus

Crisis on Campus: A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities

by Mark C. Taylor

Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities

by Martha C. Nussbaum


The Hidden Lesson of Montaigne

How to Live, or, A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

by Sarah Bakewell


Grass: The Gold & the Garbage

The Box: Tales from the Darkroom

by Günter Grass, translated from the German by Krishna Winston


Prison Rape and the Government

Sexual Victimization Reported by Adult Correctional Authorities, 2007–2008

by Allen J. Beck and Paul Guerino

National Standards to Prevent, Detect, and Respond to Prison Rape: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

by the United States Department of Justice

Initial Regulatory Impact Analysis for Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Proposed National Standards to Prevent, Detect, and Respond to Prison Rape Under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)

by the United States Department of Justice

Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails Reported by Inmates, 2008–09

by Allen J. Beck, Paige M. Harrison, and others


The Panorama of Ford Madox Ford

Parade's End, Volume 1: Some Do Not...

by Ford Madox Ford, edited by Max Saunders

Parade's End, Volume 2: No More Parades

by Ford Madox Ford, edited by Joseph Wiesenfarth


Can the Brain Explain Your Mind?

The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human

by V.S. Ramachandran


Aping His Inferiors

The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore

by Benjamin Hale


Inside the Fortress

Pitch Uncertain: A Mid-Century Middle Daughter Finds Her Voice

by Maisie Houghton

A Voice from Old New York: A Memoir of My Youth

by Louis Auchincloss


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