The New Criterion Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar, the first woman elected to the Académie Française and the author of the best-selling novels “Memoirs of Hadrian” and “The Abyss,” sculpted her public persona as deliberately as her prose. https://t.co/ra4YIoAC9H
Paperback, 2005
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Great House
Nicole Krauss
Our critic’s pick: Knole: A Private View of One of Britain’s Great Houses, by Robert Sackville-West, with photography by Ashley Hicks (Rizzoli Electa). @Rizzoli_Books https://t.co/opw03PKzN2 https://t.co/UF4brxjzwH
Paperback, 2011
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
London's 'Golden Mile': The Great Houses of the Strand, 1550-1650
Manolo Guerci
Our critic’s pick: “London’s ‘Golden Mile’: The Great Houses of the Strand, 1550–1650,” by Manolo Guerci (Yale University Press). @yalepress https://bit.ly/2ZgZMNL https://t.co/jDPcrBRadV
Hardcover, 2021
$65.00$40.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing the American Landscape
Charles E. Beveridge
Our critic’s pick: Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing the American Landscape, by Charles E. Beveridge and Paul Rocheleau, edited by David Larkin (Rizzoli). @Rizzoli_Books https://t.co/LVud0ztjOd https://t.co/6ecgtMd23G
Hardcover, 2021
$100.00$75.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
The Course
J. D. Cole
In ‘American Requiem,’ @rogerkimball connects Thomas Cole’s “The Course of Empire” to America’s own cultural decline. Will Cole’s paintings prove to be allegories or prophecies? The choice is ours. Watch the full series on Fox Nation. https://t.co/kGrXWLdPMc https://t.co/8IGewCRozd
Paperback, 2012
$16.49$8.24 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Venice: The Art of Living
Lydia Fasoli
Our critic’s pick: “Venice and the Doges: Six Hundred Years of Architecture, Monuments, and Sculpture,” by Toto Bergamo Rossi (Rizzoli Electa). @Rizzoli_Books @JamesPanero https://t.co/MuLcEnXMq9 https://t.co/mKdytA37f0
Hardcover, 2018
$50.00$25.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton
Andrew Porwancher
Our critic’s pick: “The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton: Walking Tour,” led by Andrew Porwancher, with the 92nd Street Y (August 16). @92ndStreetY https://t.co/sLRBFw9r8L https://t.co/8sSRKq2Gav
Paperback, 2023
$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
George Eliot
There was a time when it was de rigueur for American schoolchildren to read Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe (1861). George Eliot’s brief, jewel-like novel was on the syllabus for generations of students, helping to shape our national moral conscience. https://t.co/2M9Rtv53Pr
Hardcover, 2010
$54.95$29.95 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Reading Architecture Second Edition: A Visual Lexicon
Owen Hopkins
Our critic’s pick: “Reading Architecture: A Visual Lexicon,” by Owen Hopkins (Laurence King Publishing). @owen_hopkins @LaurenceKingPub https://t.co/qqA9gvOzSn https://t.co/3mHqeujv70
Paperback, 2023
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction
Allen C. Guelzo
Our critic’s pick: “Lincoln and Democracy: The Paradox of Race,” featuring Allen C. Guelzo, at the New-York Historical Society (May 9). @NYHistory https://t.co/WrW7eDBt4b https://t.co/QFEUYgblXY
Paperback, 2009
$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book