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Red Spectres
by Muireann Maguire
I didn't even know 20th century gothic literature was a thing before I read this book, but I'm sure glad I do now. If you like stories where people trade places with their reflections in the mirror, fall in love with wax figurines of siamese twins, and are haunted by the phantoms of stillborn babies (& this is just the tip of the iceberg), then this is the collection for you.(Katie)
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Shake 'Em Up!
by Virginia Elliot & Phil Strong
If you've ever had a rough time hosting a party, imagine what it was like during the Prohibition. This is exactly what Virginia Elliot and Phil D. Strong were up against in the 1920s, and their charming guidebook (subtitled "A Practical Handbook of Polite Drinking"), reissued 80 years after its initial publication, is just the thing needed to splash up any uninspired soiree.
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Edited by Robert Silvers
The New York Review of Books has been a culture institution for 50 years, covering literary trends and politics with remarkable consistency and insight. This collection of some of NYRB's best international coverage--featuring writers as diverse as Susan Sontag, Joan Didion, and Stephen Spender--is as much a history of the second half of the 20th century as a manual on how to do great journalism.
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