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On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Caroline Dodds Pennock
#RT @LRB: How did Indigenous American visitors to Europe - voluntary and otherwise - experience the Old World? @malcolmgaskill reviews Caroline Pennock's ‘On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe’, which reverses the familiar perspe… https://t.co/V84FWtjkB2
Paperback, 2024
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The Passenger
Cormac McCarthy
#RT @LRB: Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger belongs mostly to Bobby Western; its companion novel, Stella Maris, is a conversation between Bobby's sister, Alicia, a brilliant mathematician, and her psychiatrist. @xlorentzen reviews both books in the new iss… https://t.co/joecqW4yQB
Paperback, 2023
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The Betrothed: (I Promessi Sposi)
Alessandro Manzoni
#RT @LRB: Manzoni’s The Betrothed was an attempt to overcome Italy’s territorial and linguistic divisions, its orthodox Catholicism seeming to license its assertion of Italian patriotism. @TimParksauthor reviews a new translation in the latest issue: https://t.co/WMmqFO4i3y
Paperback, 2019
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Birnam Wood
Eleanor Catton
#RT @LRB: RT @clarebucknell: in this @LRB, I’ve written about Eleanor Catton’s superb new thriller, Birnam Wood https://t.co/GPEWK5RFOQ
Paperback, 2024
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Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
Mike Davis
#RT @LRB: RT @adamshatz: The writer, historian, and radical social critic Mike Davis — author of City of Quartz, Planet of Slums, Late Victorian Holocausts, and Prisoners of the American Dream — has left us. https://t.co/E8Bzsg92ak
Paperback, 2017
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Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order
Stuart Hall
#RT @LRB: ‘Policing the Crisis isn’t just one of the best books written about Britain in the 1970s. It is Britain in the 1970s, in its every word and page.’ @neepmail on Stuart Hall: https://t.co/bhyXElt6vK
Paperback, 2013
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The unclassed By: George Gissing: Novel
George Gissing
#RT @LRB: RT @TomCrewe1: It’s tragic that George Meredith, a writer who delighted Oscar Wilde, R.L. Stevenson and George Gissing, who pioneered techniques in the novel and influenced Joyce, Woolf, Forster and Lawrence, is now so little read. I wrote abou… https://t.co/sFU8NU8q2Q
Paperback, 2017
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Small Things Like These (Oprah's Book Club)
Claire Keegan
#RT @LRB: RT @rid9way: "She captures character in the blur and scythe and rhythm of movement." Great piece by Susannah Clapp (@susannahclapp) on Small Things Like These, and more generally on Claire Keegan's work. https://t.co/H0Vrbp0DeK
Hardcover, 2021
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Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
Maggie Haberman
#RT @LRB: RT @DebFriedell: In interviews, Maggie Haberman usually refuses to talk about her working methods: ‘sources reporting’ isn’t always pretty. I wrote about "Confidence Man" for the @LRB blog: https://t.co/PsX0DmEeW9
Hardcover, 2022
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Black Cat Bone: Poems
John Burnside
#RT @LRB: ... Alice Spawls on NHS waiting lists, @joedunthorne on Jane Bowles, Miriam Dobson on Soviet X-ray audio, Nicola Jennings on Spanish art, Ben Walker on ASMR, Michael Wood on Hirokazu Kore-eda and poems by John Burnside and @jorie_graham. Read … https://t.co/VkTWfhgzau
Paperback, 2015
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