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BOOK REVIEWS

The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System, by James Rickards. Reviewed by Jonathan Chevreau.

Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War, by Mark Harris. Reviewed by  Jaime J. Weinman.

Censoring Queen Victoria: How Two Gentlemen Edited a Queen and Created an Icon, by Yvonne Ward. Reviewed by Patricia Treble.

The Orchard of Lost Souls, by Nadifa Mohamed. Reviewed by Dafna Izenberg.

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, by Elizabeth Kolbert. Reviewed by Brian Bethune.

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