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April 10, 2024

The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz

April 10, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz

A lavishly generous new anthology of Delmore Schwartz’s poetry and prose

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April 10, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
Delmore Schwartz, Ben Mazer, poetry
April 05, 2024

Tudor Networks of Power by Ruth Ahnert & Sebastian E. Anhert

April 05, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
Tudor Networks of Power by Ruth Ahnert & Sebastian E. Anhert

A quite possibly revolutionary analysis of who wrote letters to whom during the Tudor era

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April 05, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
Ruth Ahnert, Sebastian Ahnert, Tudor Networks of Power, Tudor history, history, network analysis
April 02, 2024

Pharmakon by Teju Cole

April 02, 2024/ Tom LeClair
Pharmakon by Teju Cole

A review of Teju Cole’s latest production, a mixture of prose and photos

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April 02, 2024/ Tom LeClair/
Pharmakon, Teju Cole
March 30, 2024

Death of a Spy by MC Beaton (with RW Green)

March 30, 2024/ Ash Caton
Death of a Spy by MC Beaton (with RW Green)

MC Beaton’s beloved character Hamish Macbeth returns, with some help from RW Green

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March 30, 2024/ Ash Caton/
Death of a Spy, MC Beaton, RW Green, Hamish Macbethm, fiction, mystery
March 27, 2024

The Hunter by Tana French

March 27, 2024/ Ryan Davison
The Hunter by Tana French

Tana French’s new novel is lush Irish noir crossed with a Gold Rush Western 

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March 27, 2024/ Ryan Davison/
The Hunter, Tana French, fiction, thriller
March 27, 2024

The Letters of Emily Dickinson, edited by Cristanne Miller & Domhnall Mitchell

March 27, 2024/ Hannah Joyner
The Letters of Emily Dickinson, edited by Cristanne Miller & Domhnall Mitchell

“The Way I read a Letter’s—this—”

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March 27, 2024/ Hannah Joyner/
Christanne Miller, Domhnall Mitchell, Emily DIckinson, letters, Hannah Joyner
March 21, 2024

Keir Starmer by Tom Baldwin

March 21, 2024/ Joe Spivey
Keir Starmer by Tom Baldwin

A biography of the man who might be the next UK Prime Minister

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March 21, 2024/ Joe Spivey/
Keir Starmer, Tom Baldwin, biography, political biography, UK politics
March 20, 2024

The Great Wave by Michiko Kakutani

March 20, 2024/ Douglas Girardot
The Great Wave by Michiko Kakutani

The former New York Times book critic examines the intersections of modern technology, politics, and society

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March 20, 2024/ Douglas Girardot/
Michiko Kakutani, The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider, nonfiction
March 19, 2024

The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James

March 19, 2024/ Amberlee Venters
The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James

A generational historical novel set in the American West

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March 19, 2024/ Amberlee Venters/
The Bullet Swallower, Elizabeth Gonzalez James, fiction, historical fiction
March 17, 2024

The Formula by Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg

March 17, 2024/ Joe Spivey
The Formula by Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg

An inside look at the high-stakes world of fast cars

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March 17, 2024/ Joe Spivey/
The Formula: How Rogues, The Formula, Joshua Robinson, Jonathan Clegg, Racing, sports writing
March 07, 2024

Carson McCullers: A Life by Mary V. Dearborn

March 07, 2024/ Hannah Joyner
Carson McCullers: A Life by Mary V. Dearborn

Using newly available sources, Mary V. Dearborn explores the complicated life of a brilliant writer of Southern Gothic fiction.

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March 07, 2024/ Hannah Joyner/
Carson McCullers, Mary Dearborn, biography, literary biography, Hannah Joyner
March 06, 2024

The Last of Its Kind by Gisli Palsson

March 06, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
The Last of Its Kind by Gisli Palsson

A newly-translated account of the great auk and the men who chronicled its extinction

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March 06, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
The Last of Its Kind, Gisli Palsson, Anna Yates, the great auk, nature, natural history
March 05, 2024

Saturated Facts by Dr. Idrees Mughal

March 05, 2024/ Joe Spivey
Saturated Facts by Dr. Idrees Mughal

A new book attempts to demystify diet

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March 05, 2024/ Joe Spivey/
Dr. Idrees Mughal, Saturated Facts, Diet, Nutrition, nonfiction
March 01, 2024

Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines by Nicholas Money

March 01, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines by Nicholas Money

An enthusiastic exploration of fungus, God help us all

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March 01, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
February 29, 2024

The Fury by Alex Michaelides

February 29, 2024/ Ryan Davison
The Fury by Alex Michaelides

An ultra-meta maybe-murder mystery with more trickery than infrastructure

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February 29, 2024/ Ryan Davison/
The Fury, Alex Michaelides, fiction, contemporary fiction
February 27, 2024

How to Win an Information War by Peter Pomerantsev

February 27, 2024/ Joe Spivey
How to Win an Information War by Peter Pomerantsev

A new history of the British radio broadcasts designed to subvert Nazi propaganda

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February 27, 2024/ Joe Spivey/
How to Win an Information War, The Propagandists Who Outwitted History, Peter Pomerantsev, World War II, history
February 26, 2024

Big Meg by Tim Flannery and Emma Flannery

February 26, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
Big Meg by Tim Flannery and Emma Flannery

A little book about a big subject: an infamous 60-foot extinct killer shark

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February 26, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
Tim Flannery, Emma Flannery, Big Meg, sharks, megalodon, Steve Alten, science, natural history
February 23, 2024

Time Stood Still by Paul Cohen-Portheim

February 23, 2024/ Ash Caton
Time Stood Still by Paul Cohen-Portheim

A reprint bringing to life the world of WWI internment camps

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February 23, 2024/ Ash Caton/
Time Stood Still, Paul Cohen-Portheim
February 20, 2024

The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan

February 20, 2024/ Amberlee Venters
The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan

A full, quirky novel about grief and mystery and humor

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February 20, 2024/ Amberlee Venters/
The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years, Shubnum Khan, historical fiction, fiction
February 19, 2024

The Qur'an translated by M.A.H. Habib & Bruce Lawrence

February 19, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
The Qur'an translated by M.A.H. Habib & Bruce Lawrence

A new translation of the Koran with some scholarly aspirations

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February 19, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
The Qur'an, M.A.H. Habib, Bruce Lawrence, literature in translation, Muhammad
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