• FilmcriticDanaStevenspullsthelensoutfromKeaton’s

  lifeandworktolookatconcurrentdevelopmentsin

  entertainment,journalism,law,technology,thepoliticalandsocialstatus

  ofwomen,andthepopularunderstandingofaddiction.With

  eruditionandsparklinghumor,Stevenshopscotchesamongdisciplinesto

  bringusuptothepresentday,whenKeaton’s

  breathtaking(andsometimeslife-threatening)stuntsremainmorepopularthan

  everastheycirculateontheinternetinthe

  formofviralgifs.Farmorethanabiography

  oraworkoffilmhistory,CameraManis

  awide-rangingmeditationonmodernitythatpaintsacomplex

  portraitofaone-of-a-kindartist.
  Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
• 1599wasanepochalyearforShakespeareandEngland.During

  thatyear,Shakespearewrotefourofhismostfamous

  plays:HenrytheFifth,JuliusCaesar,AsYouLike

  It,and,mostremarkably,Hamlet;Elizabethanssentoffan

  armytocrushanIrishrebellion,weatheredanArmada

  threatfromSpain,gambledonafledglingEastIndia

  Company,andwaitedtoseewhowouldsucceedtheir

  agingandchildlessqueen.JamesShapiroilluminatesbothShakespeares

  staggeringachievementandwhatElizabethansexperiencedinthecourse

  of1599,bringingtogetherthenewsandtheintrigue

  ofthetimeswithawonderfulevocationofhow

  Shakespeareworkedasanactor,businessman,andplaywright.
  A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
• WrittenbyNaokiHigashidawhenhewasonlythirteen,this

  remarkablebookprovidesarareinsightintotheoften

  bafflingbehaviourofautisticchildren.Usingaquestionand

  answerformat,Naokiexplainsthingslikewhyhetalks

  loudlyorrepeatsthesamequestions,whatcauseshim

  tohavepanicattacks,andwhyhelikesto

  jump.Healsoshowsthewayhethinksand

  feelsabouthisworld-otherpeople,nature,time

  andbeauty,andhimself.Abundantlyprovingthatpeoplewith

  autismdopossessimagination,humourandempathy,healso

  makesclearhowbadlytheyneedourcompassion,patience

  andunderstanding.
  The Reason I Jump
• Inaprofoundworkthatpivotsfromthebiggestquestions

  aboutAmericanhistoryandidealstothemostintimate

  concernsofafatherforhisson,Ta--Nehisi-Coatesoffers

  apowerfulnewframeworkforunderstandingournation’shistory

  andcurrentcrisis.Americanshavebuiltanempireon

  theideaof“race,”afalsehoodthatdamagesus

  allbutfallsmostheavilyonthebodiesof

  blackwomenandmen—bodiesexploitedthroughslaveryandsegregation,

  and,today,threatened,lockedup,andmurderedoutof

  allproportion.Whatisitliketoinhabita

  blackbodyandfindawaytolivewithin

  it?Andhowcanweallhonestlyreckonwith

  thisfraughthistoryandfreeourselvesfromitsburden?
  Between the World and Me