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January 05, 2025

George Cukor's People by Joseph McBride

January 05, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
George Cukor's People by Joseph McBride

A new look at the films of the legendary George Cukor

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January 05, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
George Cukor's People, George Cukor, Joseph McBride, Katharine Hepburn, movie criticism, movies, film history, Hollywood
January 04, 2025

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, translated by Kurt Beals

January 04, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, translated by Kurt Beals

A new translation of the great war-novel

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January 04, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, Kurt Beals, literature in translation, German literature, war fiction, fiction
January 03, 2025

Plato: A Civic Life by Carol Atack

January 03, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
Plato: A Civic Life by Carol Atack

A slim new overview of Plato’s life and works

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January 03, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
December 08, 2024

The Divine Comedy, translated by Michael Palma

December 08, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
The Divine Comedy, translated by Michael Palma

A new translation of Dante’s Commedia

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December 08, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
The Divine Comedy, Dante, Michael Palma, poetry, literature in translation
December 03, 2024

Robert Hooke's Experimental Philosophy by Felicity Henderson

December 03, 2024/ Nikolas Mavreas
Robert Hooke's Experimental Philosophy by Felicity Henderson

An insightful biography of the pioneering scientist

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December 03, 2024/ Nikolas Mavreas/
Robert Hooke's Experimental Philosophy, Felcity Henderson, Robert Hooke, biography
December 02, 2024

The Roads to Rome by Catherine Fletcher

December 02, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
The Roads to Rome by Catherine Fletcher

The author’s look at all the many people who’ve walked the famous roads of Rome

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December 02, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
The Roads to Rome, Catherine Fletcher, Ancient Rome, Roman history, travel writing
November 29, 2024

Dear Unknown Friend by Alexis Peri

November 29, 2024/ Siddharth Handa
Dear Unknown Friend by Alexis Peri

What a Cold War pen-pal program reveals about its era

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November 29, 2024/ Siddharth Handa/
Dear Unknown Friend, Alexis Peri, history, American hsitory, American history, Soviet history
November 27, 2024

Hungry Beautiful Animals by Matthew Halteman

November 27, 2024/ Nikolas Mavreas
Hungry Beautiful Animals by Matthew Halteman

An argument in favor of becoming vegan

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November 27, 2024/ Nikolas Mavreas/
Hungry Beautiful Animals, Matthew Halteman, diet, veganism
November 26, 2024

Book of Exercises II by George Seferis

November 26, 2024/ Eric Bies
Book of Exercises II by George Seferis

A new translation of the Greek poet’s posthumous work

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November 26, 2024/ Eric Bies/
Book of Exercises II, George Seferis, poetry, literature in translation, Jennifer Kellogg
November 25, 2024

Vita Nuova by Dante, translated by Joseph Luzzi

November 25, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
Vita Nuova by Dante, translated by Joseph Luzzi

A new translation of Dante’s little handbook of rapture

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November 25, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
La Vita Nuova, Dante, poetry, Renaissance poetry, Joseph Luzzi, literature in translation
November 24, 2024

Orbital by Samantha Harvey & James by Percival Everett:

November 24, 2024/ Tom LeClair
Orbital by Samantha Harvey & James by Percival Everett:

Critic Tom LeClair reflects on two major prize-noticed new novels

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November 24, 2024/ Tom LeClair/
james, James, Percival Everett, Samantha Harvey, Orbital, fiction, contemporary fiction
November 23, 2024

At Wit's End by Michael Maslin and Alen MacWeeney

November 23, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
At Wit's End by Michael Maslin and Alen MacWeeney

Profiles of some of the New Yorker’s signature artists

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November 23, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
Alen MacWeeney, Michael Maslin, the New Yorker, New Yorker, New Yorker cartoons
November 22, 2024

American Rapture by CJ Leede

November 22, 2024/ Amberlee Venters
American Rapture by CJ Leede

A novel about a young woman coming of age during a diabolical pandemic

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November 22, 2024/ Amberlee Venters/
American Rapture, CJ Leede, fiction, pandemic fiction
November 21, 2024

The Last Tsar by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

November 21, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
The Last Tsar by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

A fresh new history of the fall of the Romanos

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November 21, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
The Last Tsar, Nicholas II, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Russian history, history, the Romanovs
November 20, 2024

Cassino '44 by James Holland

November 20, 2024/ David Murphy
Cassino '44 by James Holland

A new history of the battle for Rome during WWII

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November 20, 2024/ David Murphy/
Cassino '44, James Holland, World War II, World War II history, military history, Second World War, Italian campaign
November 18, 2024

Fires Seen from Space by Betsy Fagin

November 18, 2024/ Eric Bies
Fires Seen from Space by Betsy Fagin

A review of the author’s latest volume of poetry

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November 18, 2024/ Eric Bies/
Betsy Fagin, poetry, modern poetry, Fires Seen from Space, contemporary poetry
November 15, 2024

The Endless Refrain by David Rowell

November 15, 2024/ Nikolas Mavreas
The Endless Refrain by David Rowell

A new look at the state of rock music

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November 15, 2024/ Nikolas Mavreas/
The Endless Refrain: Memory, Music, Rock music, David Rowell
November 14, 2024

Is Anyone Listening? by Denise Herzing

November 14, 2024/ Siddharth Handa
Is Anyone Listening? by Denise Herzing

A new look at the ways nonhuman animals communicate

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November 14, 2024/ Siddharth Handa/
Is Anyone Listening, nature, animal communication, Denise Herzing
November 12, 2024

Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers by Darren Freebury-Jones

November 12, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers by Darren Freebury-Jones

Textual analysis of how collaborative Shakespeare’s writing world must have been

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November 12, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
Darren Freebury-Jones, Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers, Shakespeare, Thomas Kyd, Shakespeare studies, Elizabethan theater
November 11, 2024

The Power and the Glory by Adrian Tinniswood

November 11, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
The Power and the Glory by Adrian Tinniswood

Stories of English country house life before WWI tore it to pieces

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November 11, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
Adrian Tinniswood, The Power and the Glory, history, English history, the English country house
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