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See Michael Dirda's review in The Washington Post of Robert Morrison's THE ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, a biography of Thomas De Quincey:
"In this lucid, deeply researched biography, Robert Morrison makes plain that De Quincey wasn't just a recreational user, but truly a slave to his habit." |
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Great comparative culture piece in eurozine. A Lithuanian and a Bulgarian talk "territory and identity" as seen from their parts of Europe.
 
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See John Adams review of Silverman's bio John Cage a Life in the The New York Times, Nov 19, 2010:
"What emerges most powerfully in “Begin Again” is Cage’s enormous capacity for work, together with his exceptional self-discipline as an artist (something learned from Schoenberg) and his willingness to approach every new challenge with a “beginner’s mind.” For this alone it is a book worthy of being read by anyone, young or old, who is faced with the daunting task of a new creative beginning." |
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Jonathan Mirsky reviews Frank Dikötter detailed treatment of Mao's famine and covers related literature in Literary Review (September 2010). |
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in The Washington Post (Sunday, August 29, 2010)
John Smolens reviews Alex Butterworth's The World That Never Was, a history of anarchism in its heyday from the Paris Commune to the Bolshevik Revolution: "...too seldom was it acknowledged that these killers were also moved by the highest ideals and dreams of utopia."
in Inside Higher Ed (August 18, 2010)
Scott McLemee reviews The Professional Guinea Pig, by Roberto Abadie: "His book is an ethnographic account of the subculture of “paid volunteers”...Most of Abadie’s informants are also members of an anarchist counterculture that prides itself on remaining outside corporate capitalism."
new from Notre Dame Press (August 2010)
Opening the Qur'an by Walter H. Wagner, "For non-Muslim, English-speaking readers of the Qur'an who become overwhelmed and perplexed, Wagner comes to the rescue..." -- Library Journal
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