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January 30, 2025

Criminal Justice in Divided America by David Sklansky

January 30, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
Criminal Justice in Divided America by David Sklansky

A new reforming look at one era of the American legal system

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January 30, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
David Sklansky, Criminal Justice in Divided America, law, legal system
January 29, 2025

Asian/Other by Vidyan Ravinthiran

January 29, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
Asian/Other by Vidyan Ravinthiran

A memoir by a poetry critic

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January 29, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
Asian/Other, Vidyan Ravinthiran, memoir
January 28, 2025

Foxglovewise by Ange Mlinko

January 28, 2025/ Eric Bies
Foxglovewise by Ange Mlinko

The latest poetry volume from Ange Mlinko

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January 28, 2025/ Eric Bies/
Foxglovewise, Ange Mlinko, poetry
January 27, 2025

Doc Watson: A Life in Music by Eddie Huffman

January 27, 2025/ James Ruchala
Doc Watson: A Life in Music by Eddie Huffman

A new biography of an Appalachian virtuoso.

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January 27, 2025/ James Ruchala/
Eddie Huffman, Doc Watson, biography, American music, music biography
January 26, 2025

Everything Must Go! by Dorian Lynskey

January 26, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
Everything Must Go! by Dorian Lynskey

A lively tour through the end of the world in life and art

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January 26, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
Everything Must Go, Dorian Lynskey, apocalyptic fiction, the end of the world
January 25, 2025

Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza by Peter Beinart

January 25, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza by Peter Beinart

A slim consideration of Jewish identity in the light of the violence in Gaza

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January 25, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza, Peter Beinart, Gaza, Netanyahu, Israel
January 25, 2025

Lawless Republic by Josiah Osgood

January 25, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
Lawless Republic by Josiah Osgood

A new history of Cicero taking advantage of political chaos to further his career

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January 25, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
Lawless Republic, Josiah Osgood, Cicero, Catiline Conspiracy, history, ancient history, Roman history
January 24, 2025

Open Socrates by Agnes Callard

January 24, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
Open Socrates by Agnes Callard

A philosopher philosophizes about philosophy

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January 24, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
Open Socrates, The Case for a Philosophical Life, Anges Callard, philosophy, Socrates, Plato
January 24, 2025

The Waiting Game by Nicola Clark

January 24, 2025/ Steve Donoghue
The Waiting Game by Nicola Clark

The tumultuous lives of Tudor ladies-in-waiting

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January 24, 2025/ Steve Donoghue/
The Waiting Game, Nicola Clark, history, Tudor history
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
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