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Augustine, Confessions. Trans. Sarah Ruden. Modern Library, 528pp., $16 paper.

Volker Braun, Rubble Flora, trans. David Constantine and Karen Leeder. Seagull Books, 144pp., $12.50 paper.

Eric Eidelstein, Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs. 33 1/3 Series. Continuum, 144pp., $15 paper.

Daphne Carr, Nine Inch Nails’ Pretty Hate Machine. 33 1/3 Series. Continuum, 192pp., $15 paper.

Helen Smith, An Uncommon Reader: A Life of Edward Garnett, Mentor and Editor of Literary Genius. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 448pp., $35 cloth.

Nicholas Frankel, Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years, Harvard University Press, 374pp., $30 cloth.

David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East. New York: Henry Holt, 1989.

Margaret Macmillan, Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World. New York: Random House, 2002.

James J. Sheehan, Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? The Transformation of Modern Europe. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.

Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth. New York: Penguin, 2005

Robert Gerwarth, The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.

Bernard Bailyn, Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967.

David Hackett Fischer, Washington’s Crossing. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Gary B. Nash, The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America. New York: Viking, 2005.