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• Mike Jay, From the Front Line, Stalingrad-Treblinka-Berlin 1941-1945.
• Forough Farrokhzad, Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season.
• Emma Southon, Servus: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire.
• But one learns most books from the past are not masterpieces, and that surrealism as a movement — most of all in painting — was more important than the literary outputs of surrealism.