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Rosetta Loy, William Weaver
A historical novel that follows several generations of a family from Monferrato across a long span of time, from the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars to Italian unification. Rooted daily life and the pressure of history accumulate through love, betrayal, and loss.
Elaine Mensh, Harry Mensh
A critique of the idea that IQ is an objective measure of intelligence, examining its ties to class, race, gender, and inequality. The book raises fundamental questions about testing culture.
Richard Dawkins
In De blinde horlogemaker spelen zowel Paley als Darwin een belangrijke rol.
Verlyn Klinkenborg
A nonfiction portrait of a Buffalo bar and the Polish-American family behind it. Through one neighborhood business, the book traces urban change, work, and memory.
V. S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul's nonfiction travel book offers sharp observations of history, religion, and the many social layers of India. It balances personal reflection and analysis while tracing the legacy of colonialism, the contradictions of modernization, and regional life.
Maurizio Calvesi
An art-historical monograph that reads Caravaggio's life and work through the intersections of documents, iconography, and the culture of his time. It traces the tension between violence and redemption, naturalism and religiosity, and places the painter's art in a fully historical frame.
Lucia Berlin
Berlin's first major collection gathers stories from 1960 to 1990 and shows how sharply she could turn fragments of ordinary life into fiction.
M.K. Ashby
Built around the life of the agricultural trade unionist Joseph Ashby, this biography also traces how village society in Warwickshire changed over time. By linking personal history with local history, it carefully follows the reshaping of rural England under modern pressures.
Bell Hooks
bell hooks links postmodern criticism to Black liberation and cultural politics, showing why race and gender cannot be separated from theory.
Marilyn Nelson Waniek
Marilyn Nelson's poetry collection expands personal history into African American history through family memory, especially her mother's stories and the history of the Tuskegee Airmen.
O. B. Hardison
A wide-ranging collection of intellectual essays exploring the transformation of culture and technology in the twentieth century. Crossing five domains — nature, history, language, art, and human evolution — the book examines how technology has fundamentally altered human values and ways of thinking. Drawing on the new science of chaos, computer art, and Baconian empiricism, it traces how modern people have, like figures disappearing through a skylight, drifted ever further from traditional conceptions of nature and culture. Written by a former director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, this stimulating work of cultural criticism blends literary scholarship with a deep engagement with science.