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An outstanding exploration of artists as witnesses.
The Godmother
By Barbie Latza Nadeau
The lady gangsters of Italy don’t mess around.
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.
Bad Mexicans
By Kelly Lytle Hernández
An intelligent, valuable political history from south of the border.
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.
Formidable
By Elisabeth Griffith
A dense, comprehensive look at an ongoing struggle.
The Devils Will Get No Rest: FDR, Churchill, and the Plan That Won the War
By James B. Conroy
A valuable, overly dense account of the pivotal Casablanca Conference.
