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In the winter of 1949 the celebrated French avant-garde artist Jean Cocteau came to New York to give a talk at the screening of his latest film, The Eagle with Two Heads.

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“Matt Haig is allowing us a trip inside his mind and the sources of his anxiety.

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“Lucy Jones has earned a place of distinction among contemporary expressionist visionaries.”

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Booth writes with humor and intelligence while exploring serious ideas in this charming narrative.”

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The Man Who Couldn’t Stop: OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought is a gripping memoir that blends personal experience with history and complex empirical research.

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“. . . a richly researched, carefully crafted, balanced history of personal privacy . . .”

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“. . . the editor either fell asleep during the first chapter or ran out of red ink.”

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“Robert Kanigel knits together a handsome pattern as he traces the inherent drama within the destinies on the page—and in recollection by themselves and others—of the Blasket Islanders.

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“[Gretel Wachtel’s] defiance of the Gestapo and her willingness to serve time in a concentration camp gives Ms.