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      WENDY LESSER on GIUSEPPE TOMASI DI LAMPEDUSA

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      ERIC BANKS on ANI BOYAJIAN and MARK RUTKOSKI’s Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, KATY SIEGEL on MARK GODFREY’s Abstraction and the Holocaust, GREGORY WILLIAMS on CLAUDIA MESCH and VIOLA MICHELY’s Joseph Beuys: The Reader

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      SUZANNE RUTA on Francisco Goldman’s The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?

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      NOAH ISENBERG on Foster Hirsch’s Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King

    • LIZ BROWN on William Bruce Johnson’s Miracles and Sacrilege: Roberto Rossellini, the Church, and Film Censorship in Hollywood and Thomas Doherty’s Hollywood’s Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration

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      MATTHEW PRICE on Peter Gay’s Modernism: The Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond

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      ANTHONY GRAFTON on William H. Sherman’s Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England

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      SAM STARK on Tamara Chaplin’s Turning On the Mind: French Philosophers on Television

    • MICHAEL ROTH on Sarah Kofman’s Selected Writings

    • WOMEN’S STUDIES

      REBECCA WALKER on Kathy Davis’s The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminist Knowledge Travels Across Borders

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      ALICE ECHOLS on Suzanne Braun Levine and Mary Thom’s Bella Abzug

    • MAURICE MANNING on Robert Morgan’s Boone: A Biography

    • ALAN LIGHT on David N. Meyer’s Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music

    • ALBERT MOBILIO on Robert Scotto’s Moondog, the Viking of 6th Avenue

    • TOM SPURGEON on Frank Santoro’s Storeyville

    • CHRISTINE SCHWARTZ HARTLEY on Willis Goth Regier’s In Praise of Flattery

    • TOM NAWROCKI on Ned Sublette’s The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square

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