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September 24, 2011

Book Review: Mary I

September 24, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

A quietly stunning new biography of England's infamous "Bloody Mary"

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September 24, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
Keeping up with the Tu...
biography, english history, Keeping up with the tudors, September 2011, the tudors
September 20, 2011

Book Review: Star Trek: Cast No Shadow

September 20, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

A new Star Trek novel attempts to answer some old Star Trek questions

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September 20, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
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September 2011, star trek
September 18, 2011

Book Review: Letters to Friends

September 18, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

Sooner or later, Harvard's glorious I Tatti Renaissance Library gets around to everybody.

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September 18, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
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harvard university press, September 2011
September 15, 2011

Book Review: Animal

September 15, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

A stunning - and miraculously hopeful - update to DK's legendary guide to animals

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September 15, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
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animals, nature, September 2011
September 11, 2011

Book Review: Dark Jenny

September 11, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

Mallory meets Mike Hammer in the latest Eddie LaCrosse adventure

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September 11, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
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September 2011
September 10, 2011

Interview with Virginia Henley

September 10, 2011/ Open Letters Monthly

Romance author Virginia Henley talks with Open Letters about history, human nature, and a certain four-letter word

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September 2011
September 08, 2011

Book Review: The Dark Earl

September 08, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

The truth is stranger - and more welcome - than fiction in Romance legend Virginia Henley's latest.

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September 2011
September 07, 2011

Graphic Novel: Justice

September 07, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

Writer Jim Krueger, artist Doug Braithwaite, and fan-favorite superhero painter Alex Ross create the ultimate Justice League adventure.

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September 07, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
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comics, dc comics, September 2011
September 05, 2011

Book Review: Carthage Must Be Destroyed

September 05, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

A new history of ancient Rome's greatest adversary, the doomed empire of Carthage.

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September 05, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
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ancient history, September 2011
September 04, 2011

Now in Paperback: By Nightfall

September 04, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

The paperback release of Michael Cunningham's latest novel, a deft portrait of middle-aged might-have-been lust

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September 04, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
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contemporary fiction, fiction, September 2011
September 01, 2011

Now in Paperback: Tutankhamun

September 01, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

An engrossing novel featuring the boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun and his steely chief of detectives, Rahotep.

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fiction, historical fiction, September 2011
August 31, 2011

Classics Reissued: TheThree Musketeers

August 31, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

All for one and one straight to HBO2! Huzzah!

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August 31, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
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September 2011
August 31, 2011

Splendide Mendax

August 31, 2011/ Greg Waldmann

The ethics of Wikileaks (and the antics of its mastermind, Julian Assange) continue to be the focus of controversy - and new books. Greg Waldmann takes a comprehensive look at the entire phenomenon.

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August 31, 2011/ Greg Waldmann/
Politics & History
New York Times, Newt Gingrich, September 2011
August 31, 2011

Work in Progress

August 31, 2011/ Ivan Lett

Could you actually be hurting the environment by going green and moving to the suburbs? A new book champions that oft-maligned human invention: the big city.

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August 31, 2011/ Ivan Lett/
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Book Review, September 2011
August 31, 2011

: cleave :

August 31, 2011/ Jenn McCreary

a poem

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August 31, 2011/ Jenn McCreary/
Poetry
Poetry, September 2011
August 31, 2011

Walk, Swim, Grumble

August 31, 2011/ Anne Fernald

Olivia Laing's digressive natural history of the 42-mile-long River Ouse is filled with philosophical meditations, childhood memories, and of course the ghost of Virginia Woolf.

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August 31, 2011/ Anne Fernald/
Arts & Life, Travel
anne fernald, Book Review, England, Henry David Thoreau, Keats, September 2011, virginia woolf
August 31, 2011

Do what the clouds do...

August 31, 2011/ Open Letters Monthly

A talk about touching light with cover artist Charles Matson Lume

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Arts & Life
September 2011
August 31, 2011

Satanic Maggots

August 31, 2011/ Joshua Lustig

Colonialism, feminism, witchcraft, the Lord of Darkness — themes such as these once made Sylvia Townsend Warner's novels bestsellers. Now her charmingly subversive fiction is back in print.

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Fiction, Literary Criticism
Book Review, fiction, George Eliot, Joshua Lustig, literary criticism, New York Review of Books, New Yorker, September 2011, virginia woolf
August 31, 2011

Changeable Camelion

August 31, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

Courtier and cleric, adventurer and ascetic, man of faith and man of the world — John Donne was many things in his life, and a sprawling new Companion does its best to assess them all.

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August 31, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
Poetry
jane austen, Oxford University Press, Poetry, Poetry Review, September 2011, Steve Donoghue
August 31, 2011

Love at First Glans

August 31, 2011/ Sam Sacks

Nicholson Baker's provocative new book is an attempt at mainstream literary pornography, but does it suffer from the same performance anxiety as other novelistic efforts to depict sex?

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August 31, 2011/ Sam Sacks/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
Book Review, fiction, Ian McEwan, john updike, literary criticism, Sam Sacks, September 2011, Simon & Schuster, Stephen Crane, Vladimir Nabokov
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