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There was a time when no one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated "its own kind of moral laws," spectacular teeth, and a figure that was the stuff of legend, she seduced seemingly everyone who was anyone in Los Angeles for a long stretch of the 1960s and 70s. But there was one man who proved elusive, and so Babitz did what she did best, she wrote him a book. She also pulled off a remarkable sleight of hand: Slow Days, Fast Company far exceeds its mash-...

A reflection on memory by one of Poland's most famous poets, now in a revised, unexpurgated translation by Madeline Levine.

Set in Warsaw, under Russian control, The Doll is a classic of Polish literature. It is a novel that takes in the whole nineteenth century, and looks ahead to modern questions of empire, revolution, anti-Semitism, and socialism. The embattled aristocracy, the new men of finance, Dickensian tradesmen, and the urban poor all come vividly to life on the vast, superbly detailed canvas.

In 1941, when Germany turned against the USSR, tens of thousands of Poles - men, women and children, starving, sickly and impoverished ? were released from Soviet prison camps, and allowed to join the Polish army being formed in the south of Russia. One of the survivors who made the difficult winter journey was painter and reserve officer Józef Czapski.Army commander-in-chief General Anders assigned Czapski the task of receiving the Poles arriving for military training, gathe...