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October 30, 2012

CD of the Week - Vivaldi's Four Seasons Recomposed

October 30, 2012/ Norman Lebrecht

You may wonder if Vivaldi's overexposed Four Seasons needs a new recording, but Max Richter's inspired recomposition gives the hoary old favorite a shot in the arm

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October 2012
October 28, 2012

Guest Movie Review: Cloud Atlas

October 28, 2012/ John C. Anderson

Time-bending? Gender-bending? Race-bending? "Cloud Atlas" drifts onto Mr. Anderson's radar.

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guest movie review, john anderson, October 2012
October 28, 2012

Book Review: Among the Islands

October 28, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

At the beginning of his career, the great scientist-explorer Tim Flannery literally sailed to the ends of the earth and back - here he sits down to tell some of those stories

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October 2012, travel writing
October 27, 2012

Book Review: London Eye

October 27, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

In the opening volume of the "Toxic City" series, London is cut off from the rest of the world and filling up with super-powered mutants - two things which have been true on YouTube for some time now.

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October 27, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
Science Fiction
fiction, October 2012, science fiction, YA fiction
October 26, 2012

Jacques Barzun

October 26, 2012/ Open Letters Monthly

Jacques Barzun (1907 - 2012)

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October 25, 2012

Book Review: The Lion Sleeps Tonight

October 25, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

The celebrated South African author of "My Traitor's Heart" publishes a collection of his rabble-rousing, fortifying New Journalism pieces

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October 25, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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October 2012, travel writing
October 24, 2012

CD of the Week - Carl Nielsen

October 24, 2012/ Norman Lebrecht

New for classical music lovers is an invigorating recording of the symphonies of Danish composer Carl Nielsen, as well as a trio of dazzling piano recitals. As always, Norman Lebrecht reviews.

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October 23, 2012

Comics: The Shadow - Blood & Judgment

October 23, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows! With some ample assistance from comics legend Howard Chaykin

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comics, graphic novels, October 2012
October 22, 2012

Book Review: Spillover

October 22, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

The burgeoning human population is encountering new and strange pathogens every day - how long until one of them becomes the next HIV ... or Black Death?

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October 22, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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natural history, nature, October 2012
October 22, 2012

Guest Movie Review: Alex Cross

October 22, 2012/ John C. Anderson

The best-selling James Patterson novel, featuring his most popular recurring character, gets a big-screen adaptation

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October 21, 2012

Book Review: Through the Eye of a Needle

October 21, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

The new book by the great Peter Brown examines a deep conflict: Christ specifically orders Christians to be poor, but Christians would rather not be, thanks just the same.

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October 21, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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christianity, October 2012
October 20, 2012

Book Review: The Founders and Finance

October 20, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

The newly-born United States was a disorganized and largely bucolic hodge-podge until three clear-eyed financiers - all of them immigrants - worked to create a new and more monetized system

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Alexander Hamilton, american history, history, October 2012
October 17, 2012

Book Review: Joseph Anton

October 17, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

The great novelist tells the beguiling story of the man he became in order to escape a death sentence

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memoir, Nonfiction, October 2012, Salman Rushdie
October 16, 2012

CD of the Week - Anu Komsi

October 16, 2012/ Norman Lebrecht

Norman Lebrecht reviews a five-star recording from the extraordinary Finnish soprano Anu Komsi

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October 16, 2012

Guest Movie Review: Argo

October 16, 2012/ John C. Anderson

Director Ben Affleck's latest, "Argo," is a real Hollywood movie about a fake Hollywood movie way back in the 1970s

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guest movie review, movie review, October 2012
October 14, 2012

Book Review: The Ice Castle

October 14, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

To find their missing cousin, young heroes Daphne and Ivan must return to the magical land of Lexicon and confront yet more of its brain-teasing adventures.

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October 12, 2012

Comics: Essential Thor Volume 6

October 12, 2012/ Open Letters Monthly

Marvel's resident thunder god-superhero Thor goes through some epic adventures in the latest volume of "Essential" reprints.

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October 11, 2012

Book Review: Listening In

October 11, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A new book authorized by the Kennedy Library provides some slices of living history: tapes and transcripts of President John F. Kennedy at work in the White House.

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american history, history, john f kennedy, October 2012
October 09, 2012

CD of the Week - Miklós Rózsa

October 09, 2012/ Open Letters Monthly

Hungarian Miklós Rózsa was one of the century's greatest composers for film, but he also wrote the fine concertos given new life on this recording

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October 09, 2012

Book Review: Commentaries on Plato

October 09, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Marsilio Ficino's enormous commentary on the Parmenides of Plato receives a fantastic scholarly edition from - who else? - Harvard's I Tatti Renaissance Library

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October 09, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
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Aristotle, classics, harvard university press, October 2012, philosophy, Plato
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