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August 31, 2015

Book Review: Mycroft Holmes

August 31, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A debut adventure starring the smarter older brother of Sherlock Holmes

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August 31, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction
August 2015, fiction
August 30, 2015

Book Review: Chasing the Phoenix

August 30, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

Michael Swanwick's terrific new novel features a con artist and a genetically modified dog-man seeking riches and power in a post-post-apocalyptic China

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August 30, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Science Fiction
August 2015, fiction
August 30, 2015

Book Review: Agents of Empire

August 30, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In the continents-spanning 16th-century clash between Venice and the Ottoman Empire, a crucial role was played by Albania - and by two families at the heart of events

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August 30, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
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August 2015
August 30, 2015

Book Review: The Automobile Club of Egypt

August 30, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

The celebrated author of "The Yacoubian Building" returns with another panoramic look at life in modern Egypt during a pivotal era

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August 30, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction
August 2015, fiction
August 29, 2015

Book Review: The Daughters

August 29, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In Adrienne Celt's remarkably rich debut novel, an opera singer is worried that the birth of her daughter has robbed her of her singing voice

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August 29, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction
August 2015, fiction
August 29, 2015

Book Review: The Trials

August 29, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In the wake of professional betrayal and global catastrophe, the heroes of Linda Nagata's "Red" Trilogy are confronted by a new threat as the series barrels on

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August 29, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Science Fiction
August 2015, fiction
August 29, 2015

Book Review: Death in Florence

August 29, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

At the end of the 14th century, Lorenzo de' Medici and the friar Savonarola began a series of clashes in palace and pulpit that would end up altering the course of the city's history. A lively new book tells the story.

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August 29, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
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August 2015
August 26, 2015

Book Review: Browsings

August 26, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

Book critic Michael Dirda's latest collection offers more personal musings on the subject he loves most

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August 26, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Monthly Cover
August 2015, fiction
August 24, 2015

Classics Reissued: Salvaged Pages

August 24, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A new edition of this collection of Holocaust diaries by young people captures the voices and the worries of the Nazis' most innocent victims

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August 24, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
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August 2015
August 24, 2015

Book Review: Bismarck

August 24, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A newly-reprinted biography of the "Iron Chancellor" Otto von Bismarck is noticeably short - what kind of a job does it do?

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August 24, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
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August 2015
August 23, 2015

Book Review: Beirut, Beirut

August 23, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

Bloomsbury publishes a lovely new English-language translation of Sonallah Ibrahim's great novel about the Lebanese Civil War

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August 23, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction
August 2015, fiction
August 23, 2015

Book Review: The Casualties

August 23, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

You wouldn't bet on a little street in Edinburgh - or its eccentric inhabitants - surviving a series of world-battering catastrophes, but that's both the starting and the ending point of Nick Holdstock's fascinating first novel

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August 23, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction
August 2015, fiction
August 22, 2015

Book Review: After Nature

August 22, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In his brilliant new book, Jedediah Purdy argues that humanity must face the collapse of nature using the three tools it knows best: politics, policy, and cold, hard cash

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August 22, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
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August 2015
August 20, 2015

Book Review: Under Tiberius

August 20, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In a dusty Vatican archive, an ancient manuscript is found that could change the world. Or whatever.

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August 20, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction
August 2015, fiction
August 20, 2015

Book Review: No. 4 Imperial Lane

August 20, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

The woes of empire and the decline of the aristocracy form the backdrop for Jonathan Weisman's smart and moving debut novel, set in Thatcher's England.

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August 20, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction
August 2015, fiction
August 19, 2015

Book Review: The End of Tsarist Russia

August 19, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A powerful new book by one of our best historians examines from new sources the torturous path Russia took to the First World War

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August 19, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
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August 2015, World War I
August 18, 2015

Book Review: Still Life Las Vegas

August 18, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In this funny and touching debut, a young man's search for his missing mother leads to unexpected discoveries amid the lights of Las Vegas

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August 18, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction
August 2015, fiction
August 17, 2015

Book Review: The Madagaskar Plan

August 17, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In an alternate history in which an undefeated Nazi Germany controls vast portions of Africa, a cast of old friends and enemies come together amid rumors of a devastating new kind of bomb ...

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August 17, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction
August 2015, fiction
August 16, 2015

Book Review: Latest Readings

August 16, 2015/ Robert Minto

Ailing cultural critic Clive James turns in what may very well be his final collection of essays. Robert Minto reviews.

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August 16, 2015/ Robert Minto/
Literary Criticism
August 2015, fiction, literary criticism
August 15, 2015

Book Review: The Red

August 15, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

The hero of Linda Nagata's nifty new series is hard-wired to his battle-armor ... but is something else hiding in the connection?

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August 15, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Science Fiction
August 2015, fiction
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