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Nicholas Moore and Ivan Blatný were 20th-century poets whose stars burned bright in their youths, Moore in England and Blatný in Czechoslovakia. Then both men were battered by history and individual fate. The Marvel of Biographical Bookkeeping is a formally innovative book that explores their life stories. Its wildly imaginative structures are built on meticulous research, and as the two men''s separate, parallel existences unfold, they reveal astounding coincidences and heartbreaking reversals of fortune.

Is Berlin an artistic mecca or the place where ambition goes to die? Few cities'' identities have been so much debated in the past decades on such an international scale. In City of Rumor, Gideon Lewis-Kraus gives an account of his shifting understanding of the city, its pitfalls and possibilities. Lewis-Kraus lived in Berlin for three years and his honest, thought-provoking essay explores the ways in which we are burdened and freed by our environments in general, and why Berlin demands our attention again and again.