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A new volume of stories from Joseph McElroy leads readers from darkness to sudden radiance.

A matchless champion of civil rights emerges from the early letters of Thurgood Marshall.

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A new compilation seeks to pack the first ten years of the 21^st century into a single volume of images from around the world.

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A new life of one of the great masters of Hollywood spectacle, a restless and reckless pursuer of excess.

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