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August 31, 2016

Book Review: ADHD Nation

August 31, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

A hard-hitting new book exposes the widespread misdiagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

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August 31, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
August 2016, science
August 29, 2016

Book Review: August 1914

August 29, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

Before the famous epic battles of the First World War, there were lesser-known but equally ferocious clashes that are often lost in the larger narrative. A short, powerful book seeks to redress that imbalance.

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August 29, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
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August 2016
August 26, 2016

Norman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Elgar Remastered

August 26, 2016/ Norman Lebrecht

The last decade and a half of Elgar's musical life was focused on leaving a legacy in the form of composer-approved recordings. A remastered 4-CD set collects the brilliant results.

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August 26, 2016/ Norman Lebrecht/
CD of the Week
August 2016
August 25, 2016

Book Review: The World of Poldark

August 25, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

The companion book to the 2015 production of "Poldark" turns out to be more than just a pretty face

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August 25, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
August 2016, film, television
August 24, 2016

Book Review: Angelinetum and Other Poems

August 24, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

Doctor and poet Giovanni Marrasio's verses receive an expert new edition from the Harvard's I Tatti Library series

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August 24, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
Poetry
August 2016, Poetry
August 19, 2016

Norman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Martinu's Ariane

August 19, 2016/ Norman Lebrecht

I am beginning to wonder if posterity will ever place Bohuslav Martinu where he justly belongs, as one who's sound world is at once distinctive and entirely approachable, the mark of a great composer.

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August 19, 2016/ Norman Lebrecht/
CD of the Week
August 2016
August 18, 2016

Book Review: America's Snake

August 18, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

Snake expert Ted Levin argues in his captivating new book that the American rattlesnake is as misunderstood as it is miraculous.

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August 18, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
Monthly Cover
August 2016
August 15, 2016

Book Review: The Accidental Life

August 15, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

Veteran editor Terry McDonell writes a ribald memoir that's half storytelling and half tips of the trade

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August 15, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
Monthly Cover
August 2016
August 12, 2016

Norman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Schubert Leider

August 12, 2016/ Norman Lebrecht

It’s always a good sign when a pianist is named as the editorial force behind a lieder recital, giving the enterprise both objective distance and intellectual rigour, as it does in these Schubert leider.

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August 12, 2016/ Norman Lebrecht/
CD of the Week
August 2016
August 11, 2016

Book Review: The Fifty-Year Mission

August 11, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

On the occasion of its 50th anniversary, Star Trek gets a definitive oral history.

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August 11, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
Our Year in Reading, Arts & Life
August 2016, Our Year in Reading, star trek, television
August 10, 2016

Book Review: Marked for Death

August 10, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

A gritty and gripping new history tells the story of the dawn of aerial warfare.

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August 10, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
Monthly Cover
August 2016
August 09, 2016

Book Review: The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko

August 09, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

A crippled young man in a forgotten hospital has armored himself against the rotten hand he's drawn in life - until he falls in love with a new patient.

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August 09, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction
August 2016, fiction
August 05, 2016

Norman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Bruno Walter chamber music

August 05, 2016/ Open Letters Monthly

Like many other conductors, Bruno Walter tried his hand at composing. He was a famously reserved person, but does his music give anything away?

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August 05, 2016/ Open Letters Monthly/
CD of the Week
August 2016
August 04, 2016

Book Review: Ghost Talkers

August 04, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

The heroine of Mary Robinette Kowal's enchanting new novel is doing her part for the WWI war effort - by debriefing the spirits of soldiers killed on the battlefield

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August 04, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
Science Fiction
August 2016, fiction
August 04, 2016

Book Review: The Nix

August 04, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

The life of the main character in Nathan Hill's stunning debut novel is turned upside-down when the madwoman on the nightly news turns out to be his mother.

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August 04, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction
August 2016, fiction
August 03, 2016

Book Review: Dawn of the Dog

August 03, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

A new book takes a revisionist look at the evolutionary history of the dog.

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August 03, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
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August 2016
August 03, 2016

Book Review: The Story of Egypt

August 03, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

A new book tells the history of ancient Egypt, from the mists of pre-history to the familiar tale of Cleopatra

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August 03, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
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August 2016
August 01, 2016

Book Review: The Year's Best Science Fiction

August 01, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

The latest entry in the epic "Year's Best Science Fiction" series by editor Gardner Dozois features everything from Venusian monsters to telepathic food - with stops along the way for planetary warfare, quantum piracy, and the end of the world as we know it.

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August 01, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
Science Fiction
August 2016, fiction, gardner dozois
July 31, 2016

Neither Entirely Real Nor Imagined

July 31, 2016/ Justin Hickey

"The Wonderments" allow the hero of Bill Broun's spellbinding debut novel Night of the Animals to talk to the animals in Regent's Park Zoo. Justin Hickey reviews.

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July 31, 2016/ Justin Hickey/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
August 2016, Book Review, fiction, Justin Hickey, literary criticism
July 31, 2016

Suffer the Little Children

July 31, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

According to a new book, not only did God design life, but deep down inside, we all know it. Steve Donoghue remains unconverted.

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July 31, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
August 2016, Book Review, science, Steve Donoghue
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