by bertbaby | Aug 13, 2013 | Book Reviews
August 13: On this day in 1923 Ernest Hemingway published his first book, Three Stories and Ten Poems. Hemingway had arrived in Paris two years earlier, an unpublished twenty-two-year-old journalist with a recent bride, a handful of letters of introduction provided by...
by bertbaby | Aug 12, 2013 | Book Reviews
The novelist’s correspondence reveals the extent of the burdens he bore.
by bertbaby | Aug 12, 2013 | Book Reviews
August 12: The first Model T car rolled off the assembly line on this day in 1908. The “Tin Lizzie,” and the “Fordism” that came with it, have been featured in a range of literature, Huxley’s “year of our Ford” in Brave New...
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.
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