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January 23, 2025

Bright Circle by Randall Fuller

January 23, 2025/ Hannah Joyner
Bright Circle by Randall Fuller

How women experienced—and shaped—Transcendentalist thought in 19th-century New England.

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January 23, 2025/ Hannah Joyner/
Bright Circle, Randall Fuller, Trancendatlism, Mary Moody Emerson, Emerson, Thoreau, biography, literary biography
January 20, 2025

The Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant

January 20, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
The Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant

A new volume brings together some stories from the great Mavis Gallant

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January 20, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
Mavis Gallant, The Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant, Garth Risk Halberg, short stories, New Yorker, New York Review of Books
January 19, 2025

Africa's Threatened Rhinos by Keith Somerville

January 19, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
Africa's Threatened Rhinos by Keith Somerville

A new study of human hunting of Africa’s rhinos - and where things stand today

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January 19, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
Africa's Threatened Rhinos, Keith Somerville, rhinos, nature, conservation, African history
January 19, 2025

What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt

January 19, 2025/ Hannah Joyner
What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt

The private writing of a public intellectual.

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January 19, 2025/ Hannah Joyner/
What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt, Hannah Arendt, poetry
January 18, 2025

Hannibal and Scipio by Simon Hornblower

January 18, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
Hannibal and Scipio by Simon Hornblower

A hugely impressive comparative biography of Hannibal and the Roman who defeated him

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January 18, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
Hannibal and Scipio, Simon Hornblower, ancient history, ancient biography
January 17, 2025

The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus by Emma Knight

January 17, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus by Emma Knight

A novel in which a young woman seeks answers from an eccentric family

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January 17, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus, Emma Knight, fiction, contemporary fiction
January 16, 2025

Cold Kitchen by Caroline Eden

January 16, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
Cold Kitchen by Caroline Eden

A memoir of food and foreign reporting

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January 16, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
Cold Kitchen, Caroline Eden, culinary writing, nonfiction, food writing
January 15, 2025

Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney

January 15, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney

A thriller in which the disappearance of a writer’s wife leads him to a mysterious island

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January 15, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
Beautiful Ugly, Alice Feeney, fiction, contemporary fiction, thriller
January 14, 2025

Henry V by Dan Jones

January 14, 2025/ Aaron Kyereh-Mireku
Henry V by Dan Jones

A vibrant new biography of England’s famous King Henry V

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January 14, 2025/ Aaron Kyereh-Mireku/
Henry V, biography, royal biography, Dan Jones, medieval history
January 14, 2025

To Save the Man by John Sayles

January 14, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
To Save the Man by John Sayles

A new novel from John Sayles about the infamous Carlisle School for ‘reforming’ Native Americans

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January 14, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
To Save the Man, John Sayles, fiction, historical fiction
January 13, 2025

A Man on Fire by Douglas Egerton

January 13, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
A Man on Fire by Douglas Egerton

A comprehensive new biography of the famed author and activist

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January 13, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
Douglas Egerton, A Man on Fire, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, biography, American biography
January 13, 2025

The Suicides by Antonio di Benedetto

January 13, 2025/ Eric Bies
The Suicides by Antonio di Benedetto

A new translation of the concluding volume of the author’s Trilogy of Expectation

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January 13, 2025/ Eric Bies/
The Suicides, Antonio di Benedetto, Esther Allen, literature in translation, fiction
January 12, 2025

My Darling Boy by John Dufresne

January 12, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
My Darling Boy by John Dufresne

A novel in which a father searches for his wayward son

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January 12, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
My Darling Boy, John Dufresne, fiction, contemporary fiction
January 11, 2025

Postmortem by Courtney Lund O'Neil

January 11, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
Postmortem by Courtney Lund O'Neil

A new account of the long shadow cast by an infamous serial killer.

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January 11, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
Postmortem, Courtney Lund O'Neill, John Wayne Gacy, serial killerm, true crime, Rob Piest, Kim Byers
January 10, 2025

Embers of the Hands by Eleanor Barraclough

January 10, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
Embers of the Hands by Eleanor Barraclough

A new history of the social side of the Vikings

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January 10, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
Embers of the Hands, Eleanor Barraclough, Vikings, Viking Age, history, European history
January 09, 2025

Leonardo Da Vinci: An Untraceable Life by Stephen J. Campbell

January 09, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
Leonardo Da Vinci: An Untraceable Life by Stephen J. Campbell

A pointedly unconventional life of the great Renaissance artist

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January 09, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
Leonardo Da Vinci, Leonardo Da Vinci: An Untraceable Life, Stephen J. Campbell, biography, Italian Renaissance
January 08, 2025

Viaggi, edited by James Lingwood

January 08, 2025/ Tom LeClair
Viaggi, edited by James Lingwood

A new book collecting the photos of Luigi Ghirri

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January 08, 2025/ Tom LeClair/
Viaggi, Luigi Ghirri, James Lingwood, photography
January 08, 2025

Dark Brilliance by Paul Strathern

January 08, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
Dark Brilliance by Paul Strathern

A personality-driven new look at the Age of Reason

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January 08, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
Dark Brilliance, Paul Strathern, The Age of Reason, history, European history
January 07, 2025

Another Man in the Street by Caryl Phillips

January 07, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
Another Man in the Street by Caryl Phillips

A lightweight new novel about ordinary people living in London

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January 07, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
Another Man in the Street, Caryl Phillips, fiction, contemporary fiction
January 06, 2025

Against Platforms by Mike Pepi

January 06, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
Against Platforms by Mike Pepi

A manifesto about how online platforms can be used to benefit humanity

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January 06, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
Against Platforms, Mike Pepi, technology, the Internet
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