Featured in the LRB - Vol. 48 No. 13
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Titles featured in – and related to – the Vol. 48 No. 13 of LRB, which can be found here.
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Phillip Tennent makes his living at the tideline, collecting artefacts that wash up from the Channel. It's been years since the crisis changed everything, but its exact nature remains obscure. Government barely functions, the seas are full…
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A major new biography that reveals how politics profoundly shaped Joyce's life, thought and writingsThe young James Joyce (1882-1941) was forged in the smithy of Irish political controversies, and he took into his European exile a depth of…
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'A lovely book' PETER FRANKOPAN, author of The Silk Roads'One of the most compelling medieval history books I have ever read' IAN MORTIMER, author of The Time Traveller's Guide to the Medieval England''Funny and profound ... a great book.'…
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We often think of medieval medicine as strange, unhygienic and unscientific, but The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living reveals a far richer story. Long before modern wellness trends, people in the Middle Ages were actively thinking about how…
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'A captivating mosaic of wartime Berlin' Katja Hoyer, Financial TimesWhen war broke out in September 1939, what was most striking in the German capital at first was how little changed. Unless you were Jewish. Then life, already hard, soon…
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A nuanced portrait of Albert Einstein, a world citizen pivotally engaged in politics, humanitarianism, and science.…
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This is the story of the game-changing collaboration between director Alfred Hitchcock and composer Bernard Herrmann, who channelled their inner fears and desires into films that would become the nightmarish narratives and soundtracks of…
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Human history is filled with unacceptable sounds: high-pitched voices, gossip, talkativeness, hysteria, wailing and ritual shouts. Who makes them? Those deviant from or deficient in the masculine ideal of self-control: women, catamites,…
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'A wonderfully stylish, gloriously technicolour book' - NANDINI DAS'An absolute joy to read' - DR STEPHANIE PRATT'Rich, original, and eye-opening' - ALICE HUNT'A sparkling cabinet of curiosities' - CAROLINE DODDS PENNOCKFrom rumours of lost…
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Why did Catholicism attract so many unlikely converts in Britain during the twentieth century? The twentieth century is understood as an era of growing, inexorable secularism, yet in Britain between the 1890s and the 1960s there was a…
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In this extraordinary epic poem, Anne Carson bridges the gap between classicism and the modern, poetry and prose, with a volcanic journey into the soul of a winged red monster named Geryon. There is a strong mixture of whimsy and sadness in…
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From the critically acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson: a brilliant new translation of the work of Sappho, together with the original Greek. During her life on the island of Lesbos, Sappho is said to have composed nine books of…
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