The New York Review of Books, 2021/10/07
- Kategoria:
- czasopisma
- Wydawnictwo:
- NYREV, Inc.
- Data wydania:
- 2021-10-07
- Data 1. wydania:
- 2021-10-07
- Liczba stron:
- 50
- Czas czytania
- 50 min.
- Język:
- angielski
- ISBN:
- 00287504
- Tagi:
- recenzje nowe książki literaturoznawstwo
Contents
Nathaniel Rich - Rolling Along
The beauty, eccentricity, and precariousness of life on the river side of the New Orleans levees.
Anahid Nersessian - The Escape Artist
Richard Zenith takes a panoramic approach to Fernando Pessoa’s biography, setting the writer’s orderly, insular way of life against the riotous backdrop of the early twentieth century. REview of Pessoa: A Biography
by Richard Zenith
Fintan O’Toole - The Lie of Nation Building
From the very beginning, the problem with the US involvement in Afghanistan lay essentially in the deficits in American democracy. Review of
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock
The American War in Afghanistan: A History by Carter Malkasian
Karen Solie - Foxes
a poem
Deborah Eisenberg - Magic Mountains
The first English translation of Adalbert Stifter’s short story collection Motley Stones brings us into contact with his transporting and ineffable mystery. Motley Stones by Adalbert Stifter, translated from the German by Isabel Fargo Cole
Lynn Hunt - From the Local to the Global
Something seemingly small and insignificant—a provincial family, a signed slip of paper—can open up onto much wider worlds.
An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France Over Three Centuries
by Emma Rothschild
The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend About Jews and Finance Tells Us About the Making of European Commercial Society
by Francesca Trivellato
Ruth Bernard Yeazell - Dickens’s Multitudes
Two new books examine the novelist who produced some of the greatest multivoiced fiction in all of English literature.
The Artful Dickens: Tricks and Ploys of the Great Novelist
by John Mullan
The Mystery of Charles Dickens
by A.N. Wilson
Peter Brown - The Glories of Aksum
Recent studies of medieval Ethiopia are a timely reminder of a Christianity wider than Europe. Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe by Verena Krebs
A Companion to Medieval Ethiopia and Eritrea edited by Samantha Kelly
A Contextual Reading of Ethiopian Crosses Through Form and Ritual: Kaleidoscopes of Meaning by Maria Evangelatou
Zoë Schlanger - Our Silent Partners
Merlin Sheldrake explores how fungi challenge our understanding of nonhuman intelligence and complicate the boundaries between one organism and another.
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
Robyn Creswell - On the Road
The Book of Travels, Hanna Diyab’s memoir of his Mediterranean adventures, is a mixture of clear-eyed observation and wide-eyed innocence.
The Book of Travels by Ḥannā Diyāb, edited by Johannes Stephan, translated from the Arabic by Elias Muhanna, and with a foreword by Yasmine Seale and an afterword by Paolo Lemos Horta
Caroline Fraser - Where Sheep May Safely Graze
A cri de coeur against our current state of abject agricultural illiteracy, James Rebanks’s new book may be the most passionate ecological corrective since Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. The Shepherd’s Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape by James Rebanks
Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey by James Rebanks
Geoffrey Wheatcroft - Mogul of Mystery
Robert Maxwell’s improbable transformation from yeshiva boy to British media baron and outrageous swindler.
Fall: The Mysterious Life and Death of Robert Maxwell, Britain’s Most Notorious Media Baron by John Preston
Howard W. French - Enemies of Progress
France’s obsession with retaining influence over its former West African colonies has led to brutal dictatorships in Burkina Faso and Chad.
Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa by Brian J. Peterson
France’s Wars in Chad: Military Intervention and Decolonization in Africa
by Nathaniel K. Powell
Living by the Gun in Chad: Combatants, Impunity and State Formation
by Marielle Debos, translated from the French by Andrew Brown
The Trial of Hissène Habré: How the People of Chad Brought a Tyrant to Justice by Celeste Hicks
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