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June 20, 2018

Book Reviewers and Card Sharps in the Penny Press!

June 20, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
Book Reviewers and Card Sharps in the Penny Press!

The return of Stevereads!

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June 20, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
Stevereads
In the Penny Press, Stevereads, Times Literary Supplement, Anthony Burgess, literary criticism, Kate Manne, Steve Donoghue
June 19, 2018

Unbeaten by Mike Stanton

June 19, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
Unbeaten by Mike Stanton

A sterling, heroic, thoroughly researched account of the career of Rocky Marciano.

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June 19, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
Sports and Recreation
Mike Stanton, Henry Holt, Rocco Marchegiano, Rocky Marciano, boxing, sports, Steve Donoghue
June 18, 2018

Why We Need Religion by Stephen T. Asma

June 18, 2018/ Karel Carpenter
Why We Need Religion by Stephen T. Asma

A Darwinian view of whether religion is meaningful and beneficial to society.

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June 18, 2018/ Karel Carpenter/
Religion, Society & Culture
Stephen Asma, religion, philosophy, psychology, society, Oxford University Press, Karel Carpenter, Darwin
June 17, 2018

Brown: Poems By Kevin Young

June 17, 2018/ Isaac Randel
Brown: Poems By Kevin Young

A treatment of blackness (or brownness), and of the inextricable violence at the center of its history.

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June 17, 2018/ Isaac Randel/
Poetry
Brown:Poems, Kevin Young, Isaac Randel, Midwest, African-American, Black experience, poetry, Penguin Random House
June 16, 2018

Messing with the Enemy by Clint Watts

June 16, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
Messing with the Enemy by Clint Watts

The author is uniquely qualified to show how misinformation campaigns, social media trolling, and electronic espionage have become tools of modern warfare.

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June 16, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
Politics & Economics, Science/Technology, Society & Culture
Messing with the Enemy, Clint Watts, Harper Collins, social media, politics, American culture, Russia, fake news, journalism, Donald Trump, Steve Donoghue
June 13, 2018

Bruce Lee: A Life by Matthew Polly

June 13, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
Bruce Lee: A Life by Matthew Polly

An intensely engrossing biography thoroughly grounded on a staggering amount of research.

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June 13, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
Biography/Memoir, Film & Theatre; Adaptations
Matthew Polly, Simon & Schuster, martial arts, Films, Steve Donoghue, Bruce Lee
June 12, 2018

The Secret Token by Andrew Lawler

June 12, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
The Secret Token by Andrew Lawler

A new understanding of how this colony’s disappearance continues to define–and divide–America.

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June 12, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
History
Andrew Lawler, Doubleday, American History, unsolved mysteries, Penguin Random House, Steve Donoghue
June 11, 2018

The Iliad of Homer translated by Joe Sachs

June 11, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
The Iliad of Homer translated by Joe Sachs

A translation that consistently tries to be more literal than the usual modern poetic translation.

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June 11, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
Classic Literature, Poetry
Joe Sachs, poetry, Homer's Iliad, Steve Donoghue, translations
June 09, 2018

How Democracy Ends by David Runciman

June 09, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
How Democracy Ends by David Runciman

The author examines the past, present, and future of what is now an endangered political philosophy.

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June 09, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
History, Politics & Economics
David Runciman, Basic Books, American Presidents, politics, democracy, government, Donald Trump, Steve Donoghue
June 08, 2018

Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy

June 08, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy

Plokhy's new history gives us as much about the Chernobyl disaster as we're ever likely to know.

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June 08, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
History, Science/Technology
Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl, Basic Books, Russia, Ukraine, nuclear power, man-made disaster, technology, Mikhail Gorbachev, nuclear meltdown
June 07, 2018

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier

June 07, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier

One of the architects the digital world in the 1980s takes aim at social media.

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June 07, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
Science/Technology, Society & Culture
Jaron Lanier, Henry Holt, social media, society, technology, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, Steve Donoghue
June 06, 2018

Come West and See by Maxim Loskutoff

June 06, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
Come West and See by Maxim Loskutoff

A collection of short stories offering insights into the American West.

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June 06, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
Literary Criticism, Anthologies/Short Stories
Maxim Loskutoff, WW Norton, American History, American West, small towns, short stories, literary fiction
June 05, 2018

It’s a Mystery: Cynicism is a very respectable school of philosophy

June 05, 2018/ Irma Heldman
 It’s a Mystery: Cynicism is a very respectable school of philosophy

Mick Herron is at his brilliant, satirical best in his latest addition to the fantastic Slough House series

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June 05, 2018/ Irma Heldman/
It's a Mystery, Fiction-Crime & Thrillers
London Rules, MIck Herron, spy thriller, series, Irma Heldman, Soho Crime, John le Carré
June 04, 2018

The Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

June 04, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
The Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

A lovely and formidable English-language translation with detailed notes and essays by leading scholars.

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June 04, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
Philosophy, Nonfiction Translations
Diogenes Laertius, James Miller, Oxford University Press, philosophy, classic literature, Ancient Greece, Steve Donoghue
June 02, 2018

When the Center Held by Donald Rumsfeld

June 02, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
When the Center Held by Donald Rumsfeld

This biography is based in large part on the thousands of memoranda Rumsfeld took in real time as the Ford administration was unfolding.

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June 02, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
History, Politics & Economics, Biography/Memoir
Donald Rumsfeld, Free Press, Gerald Ford, American Presidents, politics, government
June 01, 2018

Truth or Dare

June 01, 2018/ Alex Sorondo
Truth or Dare

The latest release from Blumhouse Productions is a friendly horror movie with a cast of beautiful young people.

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June 01, 2018/ Alex Sorondo/
Film & Theatre; Adaptations
Blumhouse Productions, movie review, horror, Alex Sorondo, Jeff Wadlow
May 31, 2018

Problems by Jade Sharma

May 31, 2018/ Eric Karl Anderson
Problems by Jade Sharma

It feels like Maya, the narrator of Jade Sharma's debut novel, could be the outsider voice of this generation.

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May 31, 2018/ Eric Karl Anderson/
Fiction-General, Fiction-Debut, Literary Fiction
Problems, Jade Sharma, debut novels, Eric Karl Anderson, substance abuse, literary fiction, translations
May 30, 2018

Supernatural: Death, Meaning, and the Power of the Invisible World by Clay Routledge

May 30, 2018/ Karel Carpenter
Supernatural: Death, Meaning, and the Power of the Invisible World by Clay Routledge

Is a belief in the supernatural because of an evolutionarily-ingrained need to create meaning?

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May 30, 2018/ Karel Carpenter/
Religion, Health & Psychology, Society & Culture
Clay Routledge, Oxford University Press, supernatural, psychology, Karel Carpenter, atheism, religion
May 29, 2018

Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen by Alison Weir

May 29, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen by Alison Weir

Full of atmospheric historical details, this novel about King Henry VIII’s third wife portrays the dramas of the most notorious court in English history.

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May 29, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
Literary Fiction, Biography/Memoir
Alison Weir, Ballantine Books, English history, English Monarchy, The Tudors, literary fiction, historical fiction, Queens of England, Jane Seymour, Katherine Howard, Anne Boleyn, King Henry VIII, Penguin Random House, Steve Donoghue
May 26, 2018

I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing by A. D. Jameson

May 26, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing by A. D. Jameson

This book explores a broad range of geekish enthusiasms, from comic books to SFF movies of all types.

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May 26, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
Film & Theatre; Adaptations, Society & Culture
A. D. Jameson, Farrar Straus Giroux Books, Star Wars, Star Trek, pop culture, The Avengers, Captain Marvel, geek culture, Steve Donoghue
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