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The Fifth Act
By Elliot Ackerman
A painful, essential read from perhaps the only author who could’ve written it.
This cerebral work explores music’s power to capture an age.
In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonders of Complex Systems
By Giorgio Parisi
The intriguing science behind our endless connectedness.
Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
By Drew Gilpin Faust
An historian/academic reflects on the tumultuous 1960s.
Nein, Nein, Nein!
By Jerry Stahl
A writer soothes his sadness at Auschwitz. Really.
Bad Mexicans
By Kelly Lytle Hernández
An intelligent, valuable political history from south of the border.
Left Is Not Woke
By Susan Neiman
Liberal ideology can’t be reduced to a meaningless catchphrase.
Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade
By Jonathan W. White
An ambitious, bloated tale of 19th-century derring-do.
