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May 30, 2015

Book Review: Fastest Things on Wings

May 30, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A group of rescuers in Southern California treat the most delicate patients imaginable: injured hummingbirds

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May 2015
May 29, 2015

Book Review: Noise Matters

May 29, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A genuinely thought-provoking new work of science-writing probes the nature - and even the value - of noise

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May 2015
May 26, 2015

Book Review: Goethe

May 26, 2015/ Robert Minto

A short new biography seeks to do the impossible: encompass the Protean life of Goethe in only a handful of pages. Robert Minto reviews.

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Goethe, May 2015
May 26, 2015

Book Review: First Over There

May 26, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

On a chilly day in late May, 1918, American troops went into battle in the World War I for the first time - a gripping new history tells the story

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May 2015
May 24, 2015

In Paperback: Vesuvius

May 24, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

Now in paperback: a fascinating history of mankind's interactions with the most famous volcano in the world

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May 2015
May 24, 2015

Classics Reissued: Gallipoli

May 24, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

The mad debacle of the Dardanelles campaign is now 100 years in the past, and to mark the anniversary, a classic account is reprinted

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Gallipoli, May 2015
May 24, 2015

Book Review: The Great War of Our Time

May 24, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A former deputy director of the CIA reflects on his time on the front lines in this frustrating memoir

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Politics & History
May 2015
May 24, 2015

Book Review: The Unraveling

May 24, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A former key player in the Coalition's conquest and administration of Iraq reflects on her time there

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Politics & History
May 2015
May 22, 2015

Book Review: The Eye Stone

May 22, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A young monk goes on a desperate quest in the 12th century - to a fable city called Venetia

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May 22, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction
fiction, May 2015
May 21, 2015

Book Review: The Obelisk and the Englishman

May 21, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

The pioneering English Egyptologist William Bankes gets a smart and vivacious new biography

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May 2015
May 19, 2015

Book Review: Apologetic Writings

May 19, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In Florence of the 1490s, a ranting Dominican friar picked a fight with the wrong Pope and lost badly. A new I Tatti volume translates the bickering before the bonfire.

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May 2015
May 19, 2015

Book Review: An Ember in the Ashes

May 19, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A plucky, unlikely teen heroine and a brooding, idealistic teen hero form an unlikely relationship as they fight the oppression of their world in ... well, every single YA novel ever written, including this one.

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Fiction, Teen Fiction
fiction, May 2015, YA fiction
May 17, 2015

Book Review: Fracture

May 17, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In the wake of the First World War, unimaginable energies were unleashed upon the societies of the Western world. A fascinating new book attempts to assess the results.

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May 2015
May 16, 2015

Book Review: Whirlwind

May 16, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

John Ferling, great historian of 18th century America, here tells the story of the American Revolution itself, in typically riveting fashion

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American Revolution, May 2015
May 14, 2015

Book Review: The Vorrh

May 14, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

At the heart of this astounding work of fantasy broods a jungle called the Vorrh, a forest so unending that it warps time and steals souls.

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Fiction, Science Fiction
fantasy, fiction, May 2015
May 13, 2015

Classics Reissued: Onward and Upward in the Garden

May 13, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

The quintessential modern classic of gardening-literature gets a very nice reprint

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May 2015
May 13, 2015

Book Review: A Buzz in the Meadow

May 13, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A nature enthusiast looks at the countless little lives taking place on his small rural French meadow-farm

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May 12, 2015

Book Review: Theatre of the Unimpressed

May 12, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A wunderkind of the Canadian theater world writes an impassioned manifesto about everything that's wrong with the theater world - with better results than you'd expect

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Arts & Life
May 2015, theater
May 12, 2015

Classics Reissued: Cyriac of Ancona

May 12, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

During the Italian Renaissance, one enterprising autodidact took it upon himself to track down and transcribe as many inscriptions from the ancient world as he could find

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May 2015
May 11, 2015

Book Review: Colossus

May 11, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

An Indian driver and his enormous war-elephant experience the treacheries and triumphs of Alexander the Great's Babylon campaign

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May 11, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction
Alexander the Great, fiction, historical fiction, May 2015
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