Reviewed in the LRB - Vol. 46 No. 9

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The extraordinary twentieth-century writer Barbara Comyns led a life as captivating as the narratives she spun. This pioneering biography reveals the journey of a woman who experienced hardship and single-motherhood before the age of thirty…

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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BALLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION**SELECTED AS ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023*'The beauty of The Wager unfurls like a great sail...…

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A pioneering history of medical care in Stalin's Gulag-showing how doctors and nurses cared for inmates in appalling conditions A byword for injustice, suffering, and mass mortality, the Gulag exploited prisoners, compelling them to work…

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Translated by Helen MorrisonA superyacht is a boat that exceeds 30 metres in length, with some surpassing even 100 metres—more than a football field. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, there were about 2,000 of these…

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An award-winning historian's examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their enduring significance "Historically rich and superbly written."-David J. Davis, Wall Street Journal Accounts of seemingly impossible…

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A revelatory new account of the magus - the learned magician - and his place in the world of Renaissance EuropeAt the heart of the extraordinary ferment of the High Renaissance stood a distinctive, strange and beguiling figure: the magus.…

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‘A writer of sentences so elegant that they gleam.’ALI SMITH‘A writer we should be delirious to have as a contemporary.’INDEPENDENTThe new novel from the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author Helen Oyeyemi.Oyeyemi…

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Introduction by A. S. HamrahTranslated by Christine PichiniOne of the greatest film critics of his generation, Serge Daney wrote for Cahiers du Cinéma before becoming a journalist for the daily newspaper Libération. The…

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Translated by Nicholas ElliottFootlights (1983) was the first book by Serge Daney, a film critic admired in his lifetime by Gilles Deleuze and Jean-Luc Godard and recognized since his premature death in 1992 as the most important…