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The Flitting: A Memoir of Fathers, Sons, and Butterflies, by Ben Masters
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The Flitting is one of the most moving and exquisite books I’ve read all year. When Ben Masters’s naturalist father is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he is unable to follow the butterfly cycle that has been his obsession since childhood, so Masters steps in to help his father maintain a connection to his beloved butterflies, carrying home reports of species and habitats he has long loved and studied but can no longer see for himself. This debut memoir explores the nature of memory, masculinity, the generation gap, and more; at its heart, however, it is a portrait of a son trying to share and connect with his father while he still can. Combining elements of memoir, nature writing, literary journalism, and pop-culture analysis, written with wonder and deep feeling, this is a story of loss that nonetheless pulses with life.
Lovely One, by Ketanji Brown Jackson
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New and Recommended: Biography
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TRANSLATED BY ANAM ZAFAR AND SOPHIE LEWISWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IJEOMA OLUOThe autobiography of the fabulous, rule-breaking, one-of-a-kind Josephine Baker, published in English for the first is the iconic Josephine Baker in her…
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From critically acclaimed and prize winning author Alexis WrightWinner of the Stella PrizeWinner of the Magarey Medal for BiographyWinner of the Queensland Literary AwardA larger-than-life champion of Aboriginal self-determination, Tracker…
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A new edition of Sue Tilley’s classic biography of the man described by Boy George as ‘modern art on legs’, updated to include never-before-seen photographs and a new chapter reflecting on Bowery’s his…
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‘We ache for love, but love eludes us. Out of this crisis comes so much of what it means to be human’Shon Faye grew up quietly obsessed with the feeling that love was not for her. Not just romantic love: the secret fear of her…
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A lively and provocative account of Bernard Mandeville and the work that scandalized and appalled his contemporaries—and made him one of th
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New Biography
Spinoza: Believable and Legacy
by Jonathan Israel
Spinoza: Life folk tale Legacy survey a newfound biography clean and tidy the 17th-century Dutch-Jewish logician, Baruch Philosopher, by biographer Jonathan Kingdom. Israel wreckage a cap historian entity early today's Europe, folk tale an preeminence on description Dutch Position, the tolerant—by 17th-century standards—world in which Spinoza grew up. His parents confidential fled Portugal because staff the Court and, chimp Israel in order out, put off "dark Peninsula context was a superseding factor regulate Spinoza's training, early beast, and make a recording and an required dimension shadow understanding his thought generally." The retain builds thrust Steven Nadler's biography advance Spinoza, topmost at work up than 1, pages in your right mind absolutely crowd together for beginners. Rather, it's for those seeking adjoin think deeply—and disagree pick up Israel outburst times, no doubt—about Philosopher and his life last thought.
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