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April 07, 2013

Book Review: Bolivar

April 07, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

The "George Washington of South America" was far more complex and interesting than his familiar tag-line suggests - as a big, fantastic new biography makes abundantly clear

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April 2013, biography
April 05, 2013

Book Review: Farside

April 05, 2013/ Justin Hickey

Science fiction grand master Ben Bova sets his latest novel on the far side of the moon

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April 2013, fiction, science fiction
April 05, 2013

Book Review: Lover at Last

April 05, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

In her latest bestseller, J. R. Ward's two most loved (and lusted-after) bad-boy vampires finally get their turn in the spotlight

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April 2013, fiction, romance
April 04, 2013

Roger Ebert

April 04, 2013/ Open Letters Monthly

ebert Open Letters Monthly mourns the death of indefatigable everyman movie critic Roger Ebert, who saw everything, mainstreamed a profession, and championed more than a few losing battles - including, ultimately, his own. Rest in peace.

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April 04, 2013

Book Review: Christian Beginnings

April 04, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

A new book by a legendary scholar charts the journey of early Christianity from a charismatic cult to the official religion of an empire

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April 2013, christianity, religion
April 03, 2013

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

April 03, 2013/ Open Letters Monthly

ruth-prawer-jhabvala Open Letters Monthly mourns the death of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, whose exquisite literary adaptations helped give new kinds of immortality to E.M. Forster and Henry James, and whose own fiction, delicate and sometimes dauntingly enigmatic, will survive as riddles for future readers to unravel.

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April 03, 2013

Book Review: Roses Have Thorns

April 03, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

A young Swedish girl travels to England and becomes a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I herself

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April 2013, fiction, historical fiction, Keeping up with the tudors, tudor fiction
April 02, 2013

Book Review: The Chalice

April 02, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

An intelligent, sensitive Dominican novice finds herself at the heart of passionate conspiracies in the England of Henry VIII

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April 2013, fiction, historical fiction, Keeping up with the tudors, tudor fiction
March 31, 2013

Three AM, Outside the Pavilion

March 31, 2013/ Justin Hickey

If comic book artist P. Craig Russell didn't exist, we'd have to dream him up. Under the covers with a flashlight, Justin Hickey illuminates a pair of his sublime literature adaptations.

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April 2013, John Buscema, Justin Hickey, Michael Moorcock
March 31, 2013

American Aristocracy  |  GODS OF COPLEY SQUARE  |  Centerpiece 7

March 31, 2013/ Douglass Shand-Tucci

"The Gods of Copley Square"s spirited multi-part examination of Boston's Trinity Church (and its indomitable bishop-saint) comes to its conclusion right where it should: at the heart of worship

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April 2013, C-S- Lewis, john updike, Phillips Brooks
March 31, 2013

April 2013 Issue

March 31, 2013/ Open Letters Monthly

"New York Dash"by Greg Waldmann

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March 31, 2013

Book Review: Edwardian Opulence

March 31, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

The richest denizens of the Edwardian Era swan around in their finest stuff, immortalized by the likes of Sargent and Boldini, and a sumptuous new book from Yale University Press records it all

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history, March 2013, Yale University Press
March 30, 2013

Book Review: The Tale of Raw Head & Bloody Bones

March 30, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

Jack Wolf's risk-taking debut explores the boundaries of insanity and rationality

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contemporary fiction, fiction, historical fiction, March 2013
March 28, 2013

Now in Paperback: Proof of Heaven

March 28, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

A neurosurgeon's reflections on his time in a coma convince him that it held the secret to the universe.

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March 27, 2013

Book Review: Abide with Me

March 27, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

In a novel that's not as easy as it looks, a soldier comes home to his small Vermont town from Afghanistan - and to the young woman he left behind there.

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contemporary fiction, fiction, March 2013
March 24, 2013

Classics Reissued: Shadows and Strongholds

March 24, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

In a welcome reprint, a brave but untried young 12th century knight must learn how to fight - and take a bride

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fiction, historical fiction, March 2013
March 23, 2013

Classics Reissued: Dune

March 23, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

The greatest sci-fi novel of all time is inaugurated into the Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classics library

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frank herbert, March 2013, science fiction
March 22, 2013

Back in Paperback: The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy

March 22, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

David Halberstam's 1968 profile of candidate Robert Kennedy gets a new reprint for a new generation

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March 22, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
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american history, biography, history, March 2013
March 20, 2013

Book Review: Honor

March 20, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

The barbaric custom of 'honor killing' is the hinge on which best-selling author Elif Shafak's complex new novel turns

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contemporary fiction, fiction, March 2013
March 20, 2013

Book Review: The Sunshine When She's Gone

March 20, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

With the arrival of a new baby, a young Brooklyn couple say good-bye to sleep ... and start making some very strange decisions.

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contemporary fiction, fiction, March 2013
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