The Book of Disquiet
by Fernando Pessoa
MADE-UP
Everyone says that Pessoa's unfinished (unfinishable?) Portuguese classic is best taken not whole, but in morsels, chewed and reflected on, and so, having always wanted to read it, that's how I'll beg... (Tom)
The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
by Elizabeth Hardwick
Aside from a few novels (most notably Sleepless Nights) and a short and apparently wonderful biography of Melville, Elizabeth Hardwick wrote essays, many of them published in the New York Review of Bo... (Tom)
The House of Government
by Yuri Slezkine
TRUE
What an idea: to trace Russia's revolutionary generation, from its utopian beginnings to the paranoid purges of its end, via the massive Moscow apartment complex that was built to house the party's el... (Tom)
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