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July 27, 2011

Book Review: Dead Alert

July 27, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

A zippy summertime adventure story featuring hissable bad guys, sexy good guys, a man-made plague of zombies, and an explosion or two.

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July 27, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
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fiction, July 2011, romance
July 24, 2011

Book Review: Queen Defiant

July 24, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

An involving new historical novel about the legendary (and all too real) Eleanor of Aquitaine.

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July 24, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
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historical fiction, July 2011
July 13, 2011

Book Review: The Last Vikings

July 13, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

The Greenland settlements founded by the infamous Erik the Red lasted for centuries - and then failed. A new history tackles an old mystery

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July 13, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
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european history, July 2011, vikings
July 12, 2011

Now in Hardcover: Legion Lost

July 12, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

One of the greatest adventures of the Legion of Super-Heroes, now in a sturdy hardcover volume!

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July 12, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
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comic books, dc comics, July 2011
July 08, 2011

Book Review: Mitko

July 08, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

A powerful debut novella about lust and the deceits of yearning.

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July 08, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
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contemporary fiction, fiction, July 2011
July 05, 2011

Author Interview: William Martin

July 05, 2011/ Open Letters Monthly

We talk with William Martin, author of the newly re-released "Citizen Washington"

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July 2011
July 03, 2011

New in Paperback: Citizen Washington

July 03, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

Twelve years after its first appearance, "Citizen Washington," a historical novel by bestselling author William Martin, gets an attractive new paperback just in time for about a million American summer vacations.

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July 03, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
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American Revolution, fiction, George Washington, historical fiction, July 2011
July 01, 2011

The Civil War: A Narrative

July 01, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

Shelby Foote's massive three-volume military history of the Civil War is re-issued for the 150th anniversary of the war's beginning.

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July 01, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
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american history, civil war, history, July 2011
July 01, 2011

Book Review: Helpless

July 01, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

In a Victorian London gripped by the trial of Oscar Wilde for gross indecency, someone is preying on young men, and Douglas Shrove, scion of an illustrious family, is next - and doesn't know who to trust.

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July 01, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
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July 2011
June 30, 2011

Sophistication and Recklessness: Patrick Leigh Fermor

June 30, 2011/ Joanna Scutts

With Patrick Leigh Fermor's death, the world lost a gracious host, a tireless traveller, and one of the best prose stylists of the 20th century. We pause to appreciate him.

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June 30, 2011/ Joanna Scutts/
Absent Friends, Travel
first world war, July 2011, virginia woolf, world war II
June 30, 2011

Sorokin’s Tyrannical Chosen

June 30, 2011/ Amelia Glaser

Vladimir Sorokin's gruesome (and frequently censored) satires puncture Russia's surprising nostalgia for the glory days of Stalin and Khrushchev; Amelia Glaser reviews two newly released works.

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Fiction, Literary Criticism
Amelia Glaser, Book Review, fiction, Fiction Review, July 2011, literary criticism
June 30, 2011

Not merely because of the fate of character

June 30, 2011/ Karen Hannah

The self is strange and divided in Jenny Boully's new book of poetry; Karen Hannah tries to piece it together.

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June 30, 2011/ Karen Hannah/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
Book Review, fiction, July 2011, literary criticism
June 30, 2011

WHEN IN JAMAICA

June 30, 2011/ Andrea Henchey

A poem by Andrea Henchey

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June 30, 2011/ Andrea Henchey/
Poetry
July 2011, Poetry
June 30, 2011

Edward the Last

June 30, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

When he was Prince of Wales, he was the nation's darling, but when Edward VIII came to the throne, he became the greatest threat the monarchy had ever faced.

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June 30, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
A Year With The Windsors, Features
A Year With The Windsors, Edward III, Edward VIII, first world war, George v, henry viii, History review, Hitler, July 2011, nazi germany, Steve Donoghue
June 30, 2011

On the Barricades with the Bourgeoisie

June 30, 2011/ Joshua Lustig

Visionary novelist J.G. Ballard's penultimate book "Millennium People," about an outbreak of middle-class revolution and terrorism, has finally been published in the U.S.

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June 30, 2011/ Joshua Lustig/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
Book Review, Edward Said, fiction, joseph conrad, Joshua Lustig, July 2011, literary criticism, Robert Louis Stevenson, W-W- Norton, world war II
June 30, 2011

It’s A Mystery: “He’s Satan in the skin of Everyman.”

June 30, 2011/ Irma Heldman

In the crowded field of new thrillers, John Verdon’s Shut Your Eyes Tight is right up there with the very best and not to be missed.

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June 30, 2011/ Irma Heldman/
Features
Book Review, Irma Heldman, It's a Mystery, July 2011, Winston Churchill
June 30, 2011

On the Scent: Materialism

June 30, 2011/ Elisa Gabbert

Where does perfume come from? Why, from isolated islands, Indian grasses, and sticky beards of goats and sheep. Our resident perfume critic digs into labdanum, vetiver, and galbanum and lets us know where grows the nose.

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June 30, 2011/ Elisa Gabbert/
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July 2011
June 30, 2011

The Greenhouse in the Anvil

June 30, 2011/ John Cotter

A conversation with cover artist Elizabeth Alexander

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June 30, 2011/ John Cotter/
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July 2011
June 30, 2011

Everything United In Her

June 30, 2011/ Morten Høi Jensen

It's a comfortable truism that the novels of Jane Austen are all things to all readers. But ... a life-instruction manual? From the OLM Archives, a review of A Jane Austen Education

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June 30, 2011/ Morten Høi Jensen/
Fiction
Book Review, d-h- lawrence, Dostoevsky, fiction, James Joyce, jane austen, joseph conrad, July 2011, Morten Høi Jensen, Pride and Prejudice
June 30, 2011

The New Old Atheism

June 30, 2011/ Mark Mercer

Religion is one of those subjects that are too important to be polite about. But can we at least agree to disagree respectfully about the meaning of life?

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June 30, 2011/ Mark Mercer/
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Book Review, christopher hitchens, July 2011
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