The Zimmermann Telegram

The Zimmermann Telegram: Intelligence, Diplomacy, and America's Entry into World War I (Naval Institute Press) by historian Thomas Boghardt brings new truth about a famous historic blunder.

Clash of Titans

The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance (Knopf) by Jonathan Jones gives insight into a couple of lost monumental paintings.

A Full Biography of a Life Full of Family and Literature

Thornton Wilder: A Life (Harper) by Penelope Niven gives a life in superb detail.

A Factual Bestiary for Our Times

In The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary (Granta; to be published in America by the University of Chicago Press in April), Caspar Henderson tells us of fantastic beasts that are not fantasies.

Naughty Reading, Centuries Ago

Mighty Lewd Books: The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth Century England (Palgrave Macmillan) by Julie Peakman is a study of historic English pornography.

How King's College Chapel Got Its Windows

Carola Hicks gives art history and more in The King's Glass: A Story of Tudor Power and Secret Art (Pimlico).

A Humane View of Science and the Cosmos

The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos (House of Anansi Press) by Neil Turok gives a history of physics and cosmology, and a hopeful look at what science can do for us.

The Sounds of Sales

The Sounds of Capitalism: Advertising, Music, and the Conquest of Culture (University of Chicago Press) by ethnomusicologist Timothy Taylor is a history of music in American advertising.

How They Use the Internet in Ghana

Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana (MIT Press) by Jenna Burrell is a sociological study of young Ghanaians online.

A Rediscovered Memoir and Love Story from WWII

Some Girls, Some Hats, and Hitler: A True Love Story Rediscovered (Scribner) brings back Trudi Kanter's lost memoir.

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