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June 30, 2016

Comfort and Joy

June 30, 2016/ Rohan Maitzen

Mary Balogh’s Survivors’ Club novels are romances, which means they tell hopeful stories about people whose struggles end happily. Why should that optimism earn them such disdain?

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June 30, 2016/ Rohan Maitzen/
Fiction, Literary Criticism, Romance
Book Review, fiction, June 2016, literary criticism, rohan maitzen, romance novels
June 27, 2016

Book Review: Melville in Love

June 27, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

Did an unconventional Berkshires beauty provide the inspiration for Herman Melville to write his great masterpiece? A new book thinks it would be lovely to think so.

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June 27, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
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June 2016
June 24, 2016

Norman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Lucas Debargue

June 24, 2016/ Norman Lebrecht

In an era replete with talented young competition winners, Lucas Debargue, who placed fourth in the 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition, stands out.

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June 24, 2016/ Norman Lebrecht/
CD of the Week
June 2016
June 23, 2016

Book Review: Louis XVI

June 23, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

The glittering Bourbon king who lost his head to the Revolution gets a sumptuous newly-expanded biography

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June 23, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
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June 2016
June 22, 2016

Book Review: Toward Democracy

June 22, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

The long and constantly-unfinished process of democracy is given a sprawling examination in James Kloppenberg's new book.

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June 22, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
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June 2016
June 19, 2016

Book Review: The Cavendon Luck

June 19, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

The Second World War closes in on the two families bravely struggling to keep Cavendon Hall alive.

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June 19, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction
fiction, June 2016
June 18, 2016

Book Review: Commander in Chief

June 18, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

In 1943, American President Franklin Roosevelt faced the strong-willed rivalry of his own nominal ally, Winston Churchill

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June 18, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
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June 2016
June 16, 2016

Norman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - Shostakovich chamber music

June 16, 2016/ Norman Lebrecht

These three Shostakovich chamber works span the composer's whole career, and together they constitute a musical self-portrait with few equals.

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June 16, 2016/ Norman Lebrecht/
CD of the Week
June 2016
June 13, 2016

Book Review: MacArthur at War

June 13, 2016/ Open Letters Monthly

The mercurial, often infuriating Pacific Theater commander Douglas MacArthur is the subject of Walter Borneman's terrific new book

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June 2016
June 10, 2016

Norman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - All you need is Bach

June 10, 2016/ Norman Lebrecht

Cameron Carpenter is virtuosic, effervescent, totally in command of his pipes and sometimes quirky enough to make you rethink the piece from core principles. But does that approach work in Bach?

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June 10, 2016/ Norman Lebrecht/
CD of the Week
June 2016
June 09, 2016

Book Review: The Bitter Taste of Victory

June 09, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

Lara Feigel's new book delves into the landscape of the apocalypse: Germany in the immediate wake of Allied victory.

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June 09, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
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June 2016
June 07, 2016

Book Review: In Gratitude

June 07, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

Novelist and essayist Jenny Diski faithfully chronicled her own dying from cancer. A new book collects her last and greatest literary work.

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June 07, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
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June 2016
June 05, 2016

Book Review: Anatomy of Malice

June 05, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

A gripping new book looks at a quartet of the worst Nazi war criminals to stand trial.

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June 05, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
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June 2016
June 03, 2016

Norman Lebrecht's Album of the Week - piano pieces by Feldman and Crumb

June 03, 2016/ Norman Lebrecht

Steven Osborne takes on unexpected repertoire: the ascetic Morton Feldman and the extreme George Crumb.

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June 03, 2016/ Norman Lebrecht/
CD of the Week
June 2016
June 03, 2016

Book Review: The Gene

June 03, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

A generous new book describes the history - and the momentous potential - of genetic research

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June 03, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
June 2016, science
June 01, 2016

Book Review: The Summer Dragon

June 01, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

In fantasy illustrator Todd Lockwood's debut novel, a young woman from a family of dragon-breeders faces an ancient evil

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June 01, 2016/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction
fiction, June 2016
May 31, 2016

Kindling the Mob

May 31, 2016/ Laura Tanenbaum

A new biography tells the fascinating story of anarchist poet Lola Ridge, long overlooked by a critical culture that considered politics antithetical to literature. Laura Tanenbaum reviews.

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May 31, 2016/ Laura Tanenbaum/
Poetry, Arts & Life, Politics & History
Book Review, June 2016, Laura Tanenbaum, Poetry
May 31, 2016

Closing the Buffet

May 31, 2016/ Justin Hickey

A fascinating new book reveals the wonders that are visible once humans stop thinking of fish as merely food with fins.

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May 31, 2016/ Justin Hickey/
Arts & Life
Book Review, June 2016, Justin Hickey
May 31, 2016

How We Got From There to Here

May 31, 2016/ Sara Malton

A thoughtful new book about Victorian concepts of space, nation, and mobility reminds us that our own world is vulnerable to unraveling as we move from here to wherever’s next.

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May 31, 2016/ Sara Malton/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
Book Review, Charlotte Mathieson, fiction, June 2016, literary criticism
May 31, 2016

Rabbit Trails into History: An interview with translator Christiana Hills

May 31, 2016/ Steve Danziger

Steve Danziger talks with Christina Hills, a "cruciverbalist" translator from the controversial Oulipo school.

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May 31, 2016/ Steve Danziger/
Arts & Life
Interview, June 2016, Steve Danziger, translation
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