This Week's Acquisitions
- William Gass, Middle C (Vintage, 2013). After a family's WWII escape from Austria to the UK to the USA, the son grows up to be obsessed with both music and human atrocities. (Lift Bridge)
- Andrew Sanders, In the Olden Time: Victorians and the British Past (Yale, 2013). Interconnections between Victorian historiography and history painting. (Amazon)