by bertbaby | Aug 11, 2013 | Book Reviews
In this “sensual history of English football,” David Winner explores the whimsical, imperial past of a quintessential British sport and its staggering impact on fandom and leisure activities around the world.
by bertbaby | Aug 10, 2013 | Book Reviews
This profound memoir about reconciling conflicting ethnic and religious identities follows second-generation Arab-American Najla Said, attempting to understand her mixed heritage in a divided post-9/11 landscape.
by bertbaby | Aug 10, 2013 | Book Reviews
August 10: On this day in 1637 Edward King, a college friend of John Milton’s, drowned at sea. Milton published “Lycidas” three months later, giving the elegiac tradition one of its most famous poems and, three centuries later, giving Thomas Wolfe...
by bertbaby | Aug 9, 2013 | Book Reviews
The power of memory and longing is undimmed in this classic memoir.
by bertbaby | Aug 9, 2013 | Book Reviews
There’s lots to like in Caleb Crain’s marvelous debut novel, Necessary Errors. This is a coming-of-age story of exiles and expats finding freedom in post-Velvet Revolution Prague. In elegant prose and with great tenderness, Crain captures all the...
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