Antonello Grimaldi's Quiet Chaos lacks thematic complexity, but the subtly directed sequences, bitter and sweet alike, add up to a moving chronicle of sorrow, wonder and acceptance.
Historian Edmund Morgan's latest work American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America includes essays on everything from Columbus's landing to the Salem witch trials to a piece pondering the relative merits of two early presidents of Yale University.
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