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There’s never been a better time to dive into a book and we’re here to help.
Though our offi ce remains closed, we’ve made arrangements to have books shipped from another location.To order these book boxes as well as other NYRB book boxes for adults and children, visit http://www.nyrb.com/boxes.MYSTERY & SUSPENSE
Th ree European and three American classics of noir, all with no shortage of intrigue.
Th e Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia •In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes
Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette •Black Wings Has My Angel by Elliott Chaze
Sand by Wolfgang Hernndorf •Th e Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes
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Th ese six novels will whisk you away to a number of fresh and
seasonally appropriate locales.
Agostino by Alberto Moravia •Th e Violins of Saint-Jacques by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Castle Gripsholm by Kurt Tucholsky •Th e Go-Between by L. P. Hartley
Th ree Summers by Margarita Liberaki •Testing the Current by William McPherson
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Explore the vast history of the Second World War across the European continent,
from Germany and the Soviet Union to beyond.
Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte •Inhuman Land: Searching for the Truth in
Soviet Russia, 1941–1942 by Józef Czapski •Th e Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers
All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski •Caught by Henry Green
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
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Th is collection highlights the best of that most mysterious and
indefi nable of genres: the essay.
Th e Bad Side of Books: Selected Essays of D.H. Lawrence edited by Geoff Dyer
I Used to Be Charming: Th e Rest of Eve Babitz edited by Sara J. Kramer
Masscult and Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain by Dwight Macdonald
Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfi sh: Essays by Tom McCarthy
War and the Iliad by Simone Weil and Rachel Bespaloff
Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Th rones by Daniel Mendelsohn
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Novels and short story collections that imagine far-off futures—and
ask enduring questions about our present.
Chocky by John Wyndham •Th e Chrysalids by John Wyndham
Th e Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya •Moderan by David R. Bunch
Store of the Worlds: Th e Stories of Robert Sheckley edited by Alex Abramovich and
Jonathan Lethem •Machines in the Head: Selected Stories by Anna Kavan
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Reexamine our world inside and out with these crucial works of philosophy.
On the Abolition of All Political Parties by Simone Weil
Charisma and Disenchantment: Th e Vocation Lectures by Max Weber
Th e Living Th oughts of Kierkegaard edited by W. H. Auden
We Have Only Th is Life to Live: Th e Selected Essays of Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939–1975
Th ings Th at Bother Me: Death, Freedom, the Self, etc. by Galen Strawson
On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry by William H. Gass
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