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March 10: On this day in 1948, Zelda Fitzgerald and eight other patients were killed in a fire at the Highland Mental Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. Zelda had been in and out of institutions for eighteen years; for much of that time, as…
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The Museum of Eterna’s Novel
A welcome new translation of an ingeniously constructed fiction by a neglected Latin American master. The work of the Argentinian Fernandez (1874-1952), seen as an influence of Jorge Luis Borges, is held in the highest esteem in his native land.
For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus
The acclaimed cultural history illuminates a turbulent and telling period in French history.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The fascinating and moving story of a woman's biological legacy is one of the most deservedly acclaimed books of the year. Our reviewer, Jerry Coyne, calls it, "a modern classic of science writing. . . . [Skloot's] mixture of science and biography is sui generis, and its themes profound: racism, ethics, and scientific illiteracy."