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October 27, 2015

Book Review: The Annotated Poe

October 27, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A sumptuously illustrated and annotated new edition of the classic short works of Edgar Allan Poe

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Fiction
Edgar Allan Poe, fiction, October 2015
October 25, 2015

Lisa Jardine

October 25, 2015/ Open Letters Monthly

Lisa Jardine

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October 2015
October 24, 2015

Book Review: Magna Carta

October 24, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A slim and intensely good new history of King John and the creation of the Great Charter

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dan jones, October 2015
October 24, 2015

Maureen O'Hara

October 24, 2015/ Open Letters Monthly

Maureen O'Hara

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October 22, 2015

Book Review: Keeping An Eye On Art

October 22, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

Novelist Julian Barnes takes readers on a tour of some of his favorite French artists

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October 22, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
fine art, October 2015
October 21, 2015

Book Review: Part of Our Lives

October 21, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A wonderful new book details the raucous past - and the complicated, vibrant present - of the public library in the United States

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October 2015
October 19, 2015

Book Review: Evolution - The Whole Story

October 19, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A gorgeously-illustrated new book looks at the long and gaudy history of life on Earth

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October 2015
October 18, 2015

Book Review: After Hitler

October 18, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A forensic and often quite moving new history of the last, desperate days of the Third Reich

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October 2015, WWII
October 18, 2015

Book Review: The German War

October 18, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A new book brings to life the experiences of ordinary Germans during the Second World War

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October 2015, WWII
October 16, 2015

Book Review: The Rise of Germany

October 16, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

An ambitious new work of history charts the rise to victory of Nazi Germany - and deflates a few treasured myths along the way

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October 2015, WWII
October 13, 2015

Book Review: In the Shadow of Edgar Allen Poe

October 13, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A new anthology looks at the rich, creepy atmosphere that gave rise to the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe - and then was dominated by him as by no other author

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Fiction
Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, fiction, October 2015, Sarah Orne Jewett
October 12, 2015

Book Review: Xerxes

October 12, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

The great Persian King Xerxes gets a wonderfully sharp and detailed biography for Western readers

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October 2015
October 12, 2015

Book Review: Winston Churchill Reporting

October 12, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

While a young Winston Churchill was making history during the waning years of the Victorian Empire, he was also reporting on himself making history during the waning years of the Victorian Empire. A new book tells the old story.

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October 2015
October 11, 2015

Book Review: King John

October 11, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

On the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, a spirited new biography looks at King John

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marc morris, October 2015
October 11, 2015

Book Review: The Year of Lear

October 11, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A new book looks at one tumultuous year in the life of William Shakespeare

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October 2015
October 10, 2015

Book Review: Hell's Foundations Quiver

October 10, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In the latest of David Weber's "Safehold" novels, Industrial-Age technology is coming to a quasi-Renaissance world, ready or not

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Science Fiction
fiction, October 2015
October 10, 2015

Book Review: Cleopatra's Shadows

October 10, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

An effective debut novel looks at the story of famous Cleopatra's much less-famous sisters

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Fiction
fiction, October 2015
October 08, 2015

Book Review: Napoleon - Soldier of Destiny

October 08, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

The first volume of Michael Broers' new Napoleon biography follows its famous subject from obscure Corsican boyhood to the stage of world-wide fame.

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October 08, 2015

Book Review: The Emperor of Water Clocks

October 08, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A grand and jauntily mythological new volume of poetry from Pulitzer Prize-winning Yusef Komunyakaa

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Poetry
October 2015, Poetry
October 06, 2015

Book Review: The Story of My Teeth

October 06, 2015/ Nayar Rivera

Valeria Luiselli's The Story of My Teeth tells of the fantastical life of Gustavo "Highway" Sánchez Sánchez, the self-proclaimed best auctioneer in the world, and a great collector of teeth and their stories.

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October 06, 2015/ Nayar Rivera/
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October 2015
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