A new Spenser title, a steampunk romance, the latest from Alafair Burke and Delia Ephron, and more of McCammon’s Matthew Corbett
Best Sellers: Literature, May 10, 2012
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Xpress Reviews: E-Originals | First Look at New Books, May 11, 2012
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A deceptive historical, a sexy Western, a well-paced paranormal, and an anthology perfect for Memorial Day
Six New Titles on Shakespeare
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By David Keymer Bate, Jonathan & Dora Thornton. Shakespeare: Staging the World. Oxford Univ. Jun. 2012. 304p. illus. index. ISBN 9780199915019. $39.95. LIT This is a handsomely illustrated companion to the British Museum’s exhibition of the same name (open from July 19–November 25, 2012). The volume is substantial enough, owing to its graphics, to stand [...]
It’s Clobberin’ Time for Harry Potter: Avengers Hulk Out for $200M Opening-Weekend Box-Office Record!
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As predicted several weeks ago (ahem), it was clobberin’ time at the box office this weekend, as The Avengers set a new record of $200.3 million, knocking Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows out of first place as the opening-weekend champ. Iron-Man, Cap, Thor, Hulk, and friends trampled Potter’s remarkable $169.2 million debut by $31.1 [...]
Crafts & DIY Reviews, May 1, 2012
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ART INSTRUCTION HEATHER HALLIDAY, American Jewish Historical Soc., New York Martín Roig, Gabriel. How To Paint Light. Barron’s. (Pocket Art Guides). 2012. 95p. illus. ISBN 9780764164545. $9.99. ART INSTRUCTION Evoking the phenomenon of light by means of mere paint on canvas is one of the most difficult feats in realistic art. This slim guide breaks [...]
Arts & Humanties Reviews, May 1, 2012
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Dante Alighieri & Henrik Drescher (illus.). Inferno. Graywolf. Aug. 2012. c.288p. tr. from Italian by Mary Jo Bang. illus. bibliog. ISBN 9781555976194. pap. $20. LIT National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet Bang (Elegy) offers an original and idiosyncratic version of the first part of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Working from various English translations and the original, [...]
Science & Technology Reviews | May 1, 2012
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Samuelsson, Marcus. Yes, Chef. Random. Jun. 2012. c.320p. ISBN 9780385342605. $26. COOKING Among the many celebrity chefs who have written memoirs, Samuelsson, winner of the second season of Bravo’s Top Chef Masters, stands out for his ability to layer effectively the stories of his globe-spanning life and career with evocative descriptions of meals (as readers [...]
Mystery Reviews | May 1, 2012
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Sons as heroes Maybe it is the Harry Potter effect, but a startling number of young men play leading roles in this month’s list. For openers, there’s the estranged teenage son in Eleanor Kuhns’s striking historical debut, A Simple Murder. There’s also the victim’s brave stepson in Linda Rodriguez’s Every Last Secret. Two novels feature [...]
Mystery Series Lineup, May 1, 2012
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Brandreth, Gyles. Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders. Touchstone: S. & S. May 2012. c.368p. ISBN 9781439153741. $24; pap. ISBN 9781439153734. $14. M In Brandreth’s fourth engaging historical (after Oscar Wilde and the Vampire Murders), Wilde meets up with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and both are summoned to Rome. A well-crafted mix of the real-life [...]
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