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January 31, 2013

Book Review: The Best of Youth

January 31, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

In Michael Dahlie's new novel, an idle young millionaire ghost-writes a book for an arrogant Hollywood star

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contemporary fiction, fiction, January 2013
January 30, 2013

Norman Lebrecht's CD of the Week - Andrzej Panufnik

January 30, 2013/ Norman Lebrecht

The works of Polish emigre Andrzej Panufnik course with passion and political subtext. Norman Lebrecht reviews a new recording of Symphonies 7 and 8.

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January 2013
January 29, 2013

Book Review: Money Run

January 29, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

She's a master thief who wants to rob the world's richest man; he's a master assassin who wants to kill the world's richest man - what happens when they run headlong into each other in a glass-and-steel death-trap?

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fiction, January 2013, YA fiction
January 29, 2013

Guest Movie Review: Hansel & Gretel

January 29, 2013/ John C. Anderson

The adorable little candy-seeking moppets from the folk tale are all grown up and exceedingly well-armed in "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters"

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guest movie review, January 2013, john anderson
January 29, 2013

Book Review: The Making of the First World War

January 29, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

A new history of World War I looks at twelve fragile moments, twelve turning points when small factors determined very large outcomes

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european history, first world war, history, January 2013, military history, World War One
January 27, 2013

Book Review: Antarctica

January 27, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

Earth's frozen, forbidding continent is the subject of Gabrielle Walker's latest book

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January 2013, nature writing, travel writing
January 27, 2013

Book Review: The Illicit Happiness of Other People

January 27, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

The death of a talented teenage artist spins his family and friends into turmoil in Manu Joseph's incredibly accomplished second novel.

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contemporary fiction, fiction, January 2013
January 25, 2013

Book Review: The Fall of the Stone City

January 25, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

In the latest Ismail Kadare novel to be translated into English, an Albanian doctor invites the invading Nazis to an elaborate dinner at his house - but what exactly happens that night, to the strains of Schubert?

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January 25, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
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contemporary fiction, fiction, January 2013
January 24, 2013

Book Review: The World Until Yesterday

January 24, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

Until comparatively recently, historically speaking, mankind existed in small hunter-gatherer societies without states or agriculture. Best-selling author Jared Diamond's latest book examines the possible up-side of those primitive edens.

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January 2013
January 22, 2013

CD of the Week - Dinu Lipatti

January 22, 2013/ Norman Lebrecht

Romanian pianist Dinu Lipatti died of cancer at age 33, but left behind a treasure trove of adventurous, intellectually satisfying piano music. Norman Lebrecht reviews a new double-CD of Lipatti's work.

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January 22, 2013/ Norman Lebrecht/
CD of the Week
January 2013
January 20, 2013

Classics Reissued: The Gil Kane Superman

January 20, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

DC Comics collects the 1980s adventures of the Man of Steel, as drawn by the legendary Gil Kane!

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comics, dc comics, January 2013
January 19, 2013

Book Review: Access All Areas

January 19, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

A generous anthology collects the work of one of the greatest travel-writers of our day

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January 2013, travel writing
January 18, 2013

Comics: Essential X-Men 11

January 18, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

Marvel's X-Men reprint series reaches some epoch-defining issues

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comics, January 2013, marvel comics
January 17, 2013

Book Review: The Boy

January 17, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

In Lara Santoro's new novella, an older woman falls head-over-heels into a physical passion for a younger man - with consequences that threaten to tear her life apart

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contemporary fiction, fiction, January 2013
January 15, 2013

CD of the Week - Elgar, Carter: Cello Concertos

January 15, 2013/ Norman Lebrecht

Jacqueline du Pré’s performance of Elgar's cello concerto is so legendary that few artists have dared to challenge it. Now Alisa Weilerstein does so, in an astonishing new recording. Norman Lebrecht reviews

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January 2013, Norman Lebrecht
January 15, 2013

Guest Movie Review: Zero Dark Thirty

January 15, 2013/ John C. Anderson

The controversial new movie about the hunt for bin Laden - and the role torture might have played in that hunt

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guest movie review, January 2013, john anderson, movie review
January 13, 2013

New in Paperback: Rome and Rhetoric

January 13, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

The rhetoric of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar might inflame you, it might make you mad - but does Garry Wills o'ershoot himself in his analysis of it all?

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ancient rome, January 2013, julius caesar
January 12, 2013

Book Review: A Jew Among Romans

January 12, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

A new - and forgiving? - look at the ancient Jewish historian whose very name has been hated for two thousand years.

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January 12, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
Ancient Rome
ancient history, ancient rome, January 2013, keeping up with the romans, roman history
January 11, 2013

Book Review: A Memory of Light

January 11, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

The legendary fantasy series at long last comes to its conclusion

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brandon sanderson, fantasy, January 2013, robert jordan
January 10, 2013

Book Review: The Midwife's Tale

January 10, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

A formidable York midwife must use all her skill and human insight to save the life of a friend accused of murder

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fiction, historical fiction, January 2013, mystery
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