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Louis Malle’s Vanya on 42nd Street; Vera Farmiga’s Higher Ground; John Cassavetes’s Too Late Blues

Emily Bernard’s Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance.

Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colors, Gavin O’Connor’s Warrior

Norman Davies’s Vanished Kingdoms.

Laurent Dubois’s Hati: The Aftershocks of History.

David Orr’s Beautiful and Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry; Kenneth Goldsmith’s Uncreative Writings

The Complete Jean Vigo, Travis Wilkerson’s An Injury to One.

Joan Didion’s Blue Nights, Peter Van Buren’s We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People.

Andrew Tabler’s In the Lion's Den: An Eyewitness Account of Washington's Battle With Syria; Steven Cook’s The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square.

Anne Rophie’s Art and Madness, Millicent Monk’s Songs of Three Islands, Maisie Houghton’s Pitch Uncertain.