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May 21, 2023

How Not To Kill Yourself by Clancy Martin

May 21, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
How Not To Kill Yourself by Clancy Martin

A brutally personal look at suicide and alcoholism.

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May 21, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
Biography/Memoir
How Not To Kill Yourself, Clancy Martin, suicide, alcoholism, autobiography, Steve Donoghue, 2023
May 20, 2023

Journeys of the Mind by Peter Brown

May 20, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
Journeys of the Mind by Peter Brown

The remarkable autobiography of a great historian.

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May 20, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
Biography/Memoir
Peter Brown, memoir, Steve Donoghue, 2023
May 19, 2023

American Breakdown by Jennifer Lunden

May 19, 2023/ Rey Katz
American Breakdown by Jennifer Lunden

The author’s struggle with chronic illness prompts her to search for examples buried in history.

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May 19, 2023/ Rey Katz/
Biography/Memoir
American Breakdown, Jennifer Lunden, memoir, American history, chronic illness, Rey Katz, 2023
May 11, 2023

Land of War by William Nester

May 11, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
Land of War by William Nester

A new history covers thousands of years of European history.

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May 11, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
History
William Nester, Land of War, European history, military history, Steve Donoghue, 2023
May 07, 2023

The Science of Reading by Adrian Johns

May 07, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
The Science of Reading by Adrian Johns

A new book studies what we’re actually doing when we’re reading.

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May 07, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
Science/Technology
The Science of Reading, Adrian Johns, reading, books, cognition, Steve Donoghue, 2023
April 30, 2023

The Shotgun Conservationist by Brant MacDuff

April 30, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
The Shotgun Conservationist by Brant MacDuff

A new book argues that killing animals is really the best thing for them, the miserable ingrates.

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April 30, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
Animals & Nature, Environment/Geology
The Shotgun Conservationist, Brant MacDuff, hunting, hypocrisy, Steve Donoghue, 2023
April 29, 2023

Tudor Children by Nicholas Orme

April 29, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
Tudor Children by Nicholas Orme

A sweeping study of what childhood was like in Tudor times.

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April 29, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
History
Tudor Children, Nicholas Orme, childhood studies, Tudor history, Steve Donoghue, 2023
April 26, 2023

Bruno Schulz by Benjamin Balint

April 26, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
Bruno Schulz by Benjamin Balint

A new book tells the story of murdered writer Bruno Schulz and the murals he created to save his life.

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April 26, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
Biography/Memoir
Bruno Schulz, Benjamin Balint, biography, author biography, Bruno Schulz: An Artist, Steve Donoghue, 2023
April 25, 2023

Biography of X by Catherine Lacey

April 25, 2023/ Tom LeClair
Biography of X by Catherine Lacey

Catherine Lacy’s new novel is full of literary ambition and game-playing — but does it work?

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April 25, 2023/ Tom LeClair/
Literary Fiction
Biography of X, Catherine Lacey, Tom LeClair, 2023, literary fiction
April 24, 2023

Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones

April 24, 2023/ Amberlee Venters
Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones

The latest thrilling novel by Stephen Graham Jones explores trauma.

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April 24, 2023/ Amberlee Venters/
Fiction-Horror
Don't Fear the Reaper, Stephen Graham Jones, fiction, contemporary fiction, Amberlee Venters, 2023
April 22, 2023

George VI and Elizabeth by Sally Bedell Smith

April 22, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
George VI and Elizabeth by Sally Bedell Smith

A new book telling the story of the “We Four” Windsor family during WWII.

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April 22, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
Biography/Memoir
George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Saved the Monarchy, King George VI, Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth II, British Royal Family, House of Windsor, Sally Bedell Smith, Biography, Steve Donoghue, 2023
April 19, 2023

Ninth Building by Zou Jingzhi

April 19, 2023/ Kiran Gill
Ninth Building by Zou Jingzhi

The Cultural Revolution looms large in Zou Jingzhi’s newly-translated novel.

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April 19, 2023/ Kiran Gill/
Nonfiction Translations, Biography/Memoir
Ninth Building, Zou Jingzhi, Jeremy Taing, fiction, contemporary fiction, literature in translation, Kiran Gill, 2023
April 18, 2023

Christendom by Peter Heather

April 18, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
Christendom by Peter Heather

A sweeping history of how Christianity conquered the world.

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April 18, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
Religion
Peter Heather, Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, Christianity, Christian history, religious history, Steve Donoghue, 2023
April 13, 2023

Planta Sapiens by Paco Calvo

April 13, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
Planta Sapiens by Paco Calvo

A new book offers a revolutionary look at how plants think.

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April 13, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
Animals & Nature, Science/Technology
Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence, plants, natural history, science, botany, Paco Calvo, Natalie Lawrence, Steve Donoghue, 2023
April 10, 2023

Going Zero by Anthony McCarten

April 10, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
Going Zero by Anthony McCarten

A new novel dramatizes the ultimate surveillance program.

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April 10, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction-Crime & Thrillers
Going Zero, Anthony McCarten, fiction, adventure fiction, Steve Donoghue, thrillers, techno-thriller, 2023
April 08, 2023

Assyria by Eckart Frahm

April 08, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
Assyria by Eckart Frahm

A new history tells the story of the warrior-empire of Assyria.

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April 08, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
History
Eckart Frahm, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire, Assyria, Assyrian history, ancient history, history, Steve Donoghue, 2023
April 07, 2023

Portraits of Learned Men by Paolo Giovio

April 07, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
Portraits of Learned Men by Paolo Giovio

An elegant new I Tatti volume of Giovio’s profiles of men of letters.

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April 07, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
Biography/Memoir, Philosophy
Portraits of Learned Men, Paolo Giovio, I Tatti Renaissance Library, Renaissance literature, Kenneth Gouwens, Steve Donoghue, Biography, European history, philosophy, 2023
April 03, 2023

The Story of Tutankhamun by Garry Shaw

April 03, 2023/ James Holder
The Story of Tutankhamun by Garry Shaw

Some of the latest thinking about the most famous pharaoh of them all.

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April 03, 2023/ James Holder/
Biography/Memoir, History
The Story of Tutankhamun, Tutankhamun, Garry Shaw, Ancient Egypt, James Holder, ancient egypt, 2023
March 31, 2023

The Creativity Code by Marcus du Sautoy

March 31, 2023/ Sam Sacks
The Creativity Code by Marcus du Sautoy

From 2019, an exploration of AI’s incursions into the arts.

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March 31, 2023/ Sam Sacks/
Science/Technology
AI, du Sautoy, creativity, Sam Sacks, 2019
March 29, 2023

The Complete Tutankhamun by Nicholas Reeves

March 29, 2023/ James Holder
The Complete Tutankhamun by Nicholas Reeves

A big, gorgeously-illustrated edition of a classic work about the pharaoh Tutankhamun.

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March 29, 2023/ James Holder/
History
The Complete Tutankhamun, Nicholas Reeves, King Tutankhamun, Ancient Egypt, James Holder, ancient egypt, 2023
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