The Critic Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Late-Georgian Churches: Anglican Architecture, Patronage and Churchgoing in England 1790-1840
Christopher Webster
The Church of England offered a necessary bulwark against the tempests of change. James Stevens Curl revels in the Gothic churches on display in Christopher Webster’s Late-Georgian Churches https://t.co/QLtXjpqajR
Hardcover, 2022
$115.00$90.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto
Zachary Zane
“Sex positivity” drains the erotic of existential meaning. @JarrydBartle unpacks the philosophy behind Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto https://t.co/Xq1AMfZQkN
Hardcover, 2023
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars
Frances Spalding
Hugh St Clair surveys British art between the wars in Frances Spalding’s The Real and the Romantic https://t.co/g4UVLskNBX
Hardcover, 2023
$50.00$25.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Yoga
Emmanuel Carrère
Henri Astier on how Emmanuel Carrère admits that he has made up details in his memoir Yoga: “The breach of the reader’s trust is venial: a fault confessed is half redressed, as the French say” https://t.co/7IBKnPGQaW
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Jack Absolute Flies Again
Richard Bean
"Bean relishes teasing progressive opinion" — @annemcelvoy on Richard Bean's new production: Jack Absolute Flies Again https://t.co/WiM33bVDMT
Paperback, 2022
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver calls to mind Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield in both title and theme. @john_self finds much to like in this angry book. https://t.co/fNY1wgfIK9
Paperback, 2024
$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Isaiah Berlin: An Interpretation of His Thought
John Gray
.@DavidMarkHerman offers a homage to the maverick writing of John Gray: “It was at Oxford that he encountered Isaiah Berlin whose darker, more agonistic kind of liberalism influenced him enormously” https://t.co/q33FpSJKBi
Paperback, 2013
$28.95$14.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Gustav Mahler
Bruno Walter
“Ernst Krenek was married at the time to Gustav Mahler’s daughter and seeking a voice of his own” — @NLebrecht enjoys three a cappella pieces for mixed choir that locate Krenek among the tone-breakers https://t.co/TOZ5btnchp
Paperback, 2014
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
.@DanBJohnson reveals what happened next to the man who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front: In 1943, the Nazis took revenge on Remarque. His sister was denounced, tried and executed for the “crime” of undermining morale https://t.co/FJBNTAFI71
Paperback, Mass Market, 1987
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France: A Short History
Jeremy Black
.@Critic_GStewart and Jeremy Black ask how the railways developed in France and Germany https://t.co/z55iFANS48
Hardcover, 2021
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book