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Book Review/Interview: Talking “Upstate” With Critic James Wood

November 13, 2018
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“I like implication very much; there’s a fiction of implication that I think I’ve championed over the fiction of explication.”

Book Review: Napoleon — Savior or Hitler?

November 12, 2018
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British historian Adam Zamoyski has drawn a portrait of Napoleon that is neither flattering nor diminishing.

Book Review: Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle-Earth

November 9, 2018
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Journalist Ian Nathan presents Peter Jackson’s trials in bringing Tolkien’s books to film as if he was writing a spy thriller.

Book Feature: “Buy Me, Boston” — A City of Ads

November 8, 2018
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The volume is devoted to print ads and event flyers for local eateries, concert venues, theaters, stores, and community events that were printed in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s.

Book Review: “Washington Black” — Grappling with the Meanings of Liberty

November 8, 2018
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In Washington Black novelist Esi Edugyan has defied the cliché of the escaped slave discovering freedom.

Book Review: “Impossible Owls” — Beauty on the Margins

November 4, 2018
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Brian Phillips uses the essay form to map the limits of America’s cultural-historical imagination, from our highest achievements to our kitschiest expressions of who we think we are, and who we think everyone else is.

Book Review: “The Fifth Risk” — No Citizens, Only Consumers

October 28, 2018
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Whether through disregard, willful ignorance, or strategic elimination, Michael Lewis gives us a glimpse of how parts of the government are being hollowed out.

Poetry Review: “Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania” — A Playful Polish Epic

October 17, 2018
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In his exhilarating translation of Pan Tadeusz, Bill Johnston captures Adam Mickiewicz’s wild fluctuations of register and brilliant associative riffs. The volume recently won the 2019 National Translation Award in Poetry.

Book Review: “A Life of My Own” — Reserved to a Fault

October 16, 2018
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Claire Tomalin narrates her story with a prototypically English stiff upper lip, and a reticence about the personal.

Book Review: “The Mars Room” — Women Behind Bars

October 14, 2018
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The strength of The Mars Room is its compelling vision of the stultifying and claustrophobic underworld of women in prison.

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