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Becca Rothfeld is the nonfiction book critic at Book World.

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Book Cover for: V13: Chronicle of a Trial, Emmanuel Carrère

V13: Chronicle of a Trial

Emmanuel Carrère
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Moving and masterful... [A] magnificent book... I wept many times reading V13... Carrère commits everything to the page, omitting nothing, however unbearable.

Hardcover, 2024

$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The MANIAC, Benjamin Labatut

The MANIAC

Benjamin Labatut
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A contemporary writer of thrilling originality... The MANIAC is a work of dark, eerie and singular beauty.

Hardcover, 2023

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Another Life and the House on the Embankment, Yuri Trifonov

Another Life and the House on the Embankment

Yuri Trifonov
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One of the great chroniclers of the emotional distortions that arise under totalitarianism. “Another Life” is a wonderfully paranoiac testament to the way that familiar interpersonal uncertainties are exacerbated by political repression, until they bubble up and boil over.

Paperback, 1999

$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Book Against Death, Elias Canetti

The Book Against Death

Elias Canetti
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Captivating... 'The Book Against Death' refuses finality by remaining forever on the cusp of transformation... It can’t save all of us, as Canetti longed to, but there is a small portion of immortality to be found in it nonetheless.

Paperback, 2024

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir, Werner Herzog

Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

Werner Herzog
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His melancholic, meditative and theatrically nostalgic way of being is as irrepressible in his writing as it is in his films... I feel the same sense of awe when I contemplate the phenomenon of Werner Herzog as I do when I contemplate the pyramids.

Hardcover, 2023

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book