Featured in the LRB - Vol. 48 No. 14
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Titles featured in – and related to – Vol. 48 No. 14 of LRB, which can be found here.
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Translated by Emily WilsonThe greatest literary landmark of antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our timeWhen Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017—revealing the…
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How do we give old words new voices? What must a translator lose - and what might she gain - when she moves between languages, bringing ancient stories to modern life?Emily Wilson has spent a lifetime wrestling with these questions: here,…
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Translated by Emily WilsonA New York Times Notable Book of 2018"Wilson’s language is fresh, unpretentious and lean…It is rare to find a translation that is at once so effortlessly easy to read and so rigorously…
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Many have called Patricia Lockwood a wordsmith, but in the latest iteration of her life, she has become, quite literally, a metalsmith too. Stones, gems, metals, fossils – she forges them into bodies, faces and, with her typical…
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A spell-binding fantasy novel set in the Blitz, from the author of Golden Hill.'What a joy! A novel with endless ingenuity and enormous heart.' Kaliane Bradley'His Dark Materials meets the Blitz.' Observer'One of the finest…
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'David Torrance chronicles this decisive moment in British history with colourful, fascinating detail' - The TimesAuthor of the critically acclaimed The Wild Men, David Torrance explores another tumultuous and era-defining moment in British…
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The General Strike of 1926: the tragic story of how the world's best organized working class confronted the world's most powerful, and self-confident, government.…
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Midnight, 30 April 1926. Mineowners lock out a million miners. In response, British workers across the country down their tools. Britain's first General Strike has begun.…
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The Future in Our Past tells the story of the 1926 General Strike on its centenary. It is a compelling on-the-ground account of how workers brought the country to a standstill for nine extraordinary days. Callum Cant and Matthew Lee take us…
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One of the most penetrating and sympathetic explorations ever undertaken by one writer into the mind of another, Prancing Novelist is far more than a simple tribute or work of research. In these pages--by turns instructive, mischievous, and…
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'This is surprising, addictive poetry with delicious, seemingly wayward lines . . . McLane is a true Romantic, rooted in tradition while leaping and exulting in her originality' Irish TimesGathering the best of her first five collections, a…
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2025A dazzling new biography of young Tennyson by the prize-winning, bestselling author of The Age of Wonder.Alfred Lord Tennyson is now remembered - if he is remembered at all - as the…
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