Biography & Memoir
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Brutalities: A Love Story
Paperback
A searing, vivid memoir that investigates the dynamics of violence, power, desire and a body pushed to the brink
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Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
Hardback
A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator
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Empire's Son, Empire's Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah
Hardback
A rollicking story of two literary fabulists who revealed the West’s obsession with a fabricated, exotic East
Portraits in Life and Death
Hardback
A new edition of the cult classic photography book by the legendary Peter Hujar, featuring a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser
Origin Story: The Trials of Charles Darwin
Hardback
A lively account of how Darwin’s work on natural selection transformed science and society and an investigation into the mysterious illness that plagued its author