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December 31, 2017

Moving Announcement!

December 31, 2017/ Steve Donoghue
Moving Announcement!

And there you have it, folks! The best – and worst – books of 2017, neatly laid out and pontificated about as we’ve been doing for over a decade!

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December 31, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
December 2017, Steve Donoghue
December 01, 2017

OLM Favorites: Not A Boating Accident

December 01, 2017/ Steve Donoghue
OLM Favorites: Not A Boating Accident

It wouldn’t be summer without a giant killer shark novel, so Steve Donoghue goes for a fun swim with the, er, mother of them all, Meg: Hell’s Aquarium.

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December 01, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
December 2017, literary criticism, Steve Donoghue
November 30, 2017

Book Review: The Fate of Rome

November 30, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

To the long list of potential explanations for the fall of Rome, a gripping new book adds one more: climate change.

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November 30, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Politics & History
November 2017, roman history, Steve Donoghue
November 25, 2017

Book Review: Giannozzo Manetti

November 25, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

New in the I Tatti series: a tract in praise of Christianity (at the expense of Jews and ancient pagans) by a towering figure of the early Renaissance.

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November 25, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
November 2017, religion, Steve Donoghue
November 24, 2017

Book Review: The First Domestication

November 24, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

The ancient partnership between humans and canines is the subject of a thorough new volume of research

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November 24, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
dogs, nature, November 2017, science, Steve Donoghue
November 24, 2017

Book Review: Spineless

November 24, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

A fascinating new book looks at the unendingly odd jellyfish - and some of the unexpected roles it plays in the 21st century world.

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November 24, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
Book Review, nature, November 2017, Steve Donoghue
November 21, 2017

Book Review: The Friendly Orange Glow

November 21, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

A tremendously involving narrative history of a forgotten chapter in Internet history

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November 21, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
November 2017, science, Steve Donoghue
November 20, 2017

Book Review: The Dawn Watch

November 20, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

A fantastic new biography of Joseph Conrad follows him around in his travels and delves into the heart of his many books.

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November 20, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
biography, joseph conrad, November 2017, Steve Donoghue
November 15, 2017

Book Review: The Big Book of the Continental Op

November 15, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

All of Dashiell Hammett's stories and novels featuring the Continental Op, collected in one volume for the first time.

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November 15, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction
Dashiell Hammett, fiction, November 2017, Steve Donoghue
November 10, 2017

Book Review: Cartoon County

November 10, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

In "Cartoon County," Vanity Fair editor Cullen Murphy recounts his famous cartoonist father's adventures during the heyday of the American pop art industry.

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November 10, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
comics, November 2017, Steve Donoghue
November 09, 2017

Book Review: Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts

November 09, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

The life stories of twelve incredible medieval manuscripts.

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November 09, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
November 2017, Steve Donoghue
November 06, 2017

Book Review: The Water Will Come

November 06, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

A powerful new book covers in terrifying detail what happens to the modern world if Earth's ice caps dissolve.

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November 06, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
nature, November 2017, Steve Donoghue
October 31, 2017

Man's Pest Friend

October 31, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

Only one dog out of every five on Earth is somebody's pet; the rest are roamers in streets and city dumps. A fascinating new book looks at the lives of the canine majority.

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October 31, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
dogs, nature, November 2017, Steve Donoghue
October 27, 2017

Book Review: The Second World Wars

October 27, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

Veteran military historian Victor Davis Hanson writes a broad-scale history of the Second World War.

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October 27, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Politics & History
history, October 2017, politics, Steve Donoghue, world war II
October 26, 2017

Book Review: The Collector of Lives

October 26, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

Giorgio Vasari, the author of a fundamental and beloved collection of the lives of Renaissance artists, here gets a lively and readable biography of his own.

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October 26, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
fine art, music, October 2017, Steve Donoghue
October 25, 2017

Book Review: Grant

October 25, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

Bestselling biographer Ron Chernow tells the story of famous general and infamous president Ulysses S. Grant.

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October 25, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
biography, October 2017, Steve Donoghue
October 23, 2017

Book Review: Trump is F*cking Crazy

October 23, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

Former newscaster and sports commentator Keith Olbermann is a new star of YouTube for his strident opposition to President Trump; his new book provides the transcript.

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October 23, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Politics & History
history, October 2017, politics, Steve Donoghue
October 23, 2017

Book Review: Iran: A Modern History

October 23, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

A sprawling new history of Iran from the 16th century to the present brings the multi-faceted story of Persia alive.

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October 23, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Politics & History
history, October 2017, politics, Steve Donoghue
October 19, 2017

Book Review: Istanbul

October 19, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

Orhan Pamuk's bestselling love letter to Istanbul receives a gorgeous new illustrated edition.

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October 19, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
October 2017, Steve Donoghue
October 17, 2017

Book Review: Tamed & Untamed

October 17, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

Two beloved writers of natural history team up to tell stories about a host of animal species, from the ones in our homes to the ones in our gardens to the ones still prowling the wild.

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October 17, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
nature, October 2017, Steve Donoghue
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