Previews, Reviews, and Collection Development
April’s Classic Returns feature new English translations of The Fabliaux, Tacitus’s stern Annals, and a slim retelling of One Thousand and One Nights alongside Müller’s Anne Frank: The Biography, Merton’s Selected Essays and a rarely seen bilingual collection of Proust’s poetry.
Beard, Mary. Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations. Liveright: Norton. Sept. 2013. 320p. ISBN 9780871407160. $28.95. HISTORY Described by the New York Times as “the closest thing, if it exists, to a celebrity classics professor” in a story about her having stood up to some naysayers who abused her on the Internet, Cambridge scholar [...]
Reviews of David Foster Wallace’s Both Flesh and Not, Tim Crothers’s The Queen of Katwe, and James Rondeau and Sheena Wagstaff’s Roy Lichtenstein, plus a full list of arts and humanities reviews from the Nov. 1 issue.
Essay collections covering “a wide range of subjects and concerns.”
Reviews of Daniel Mendelsohn’s Waiting for the Barbarians and Davy Rothbart’s My Heart Is an Idiot.
Barbara’s Picks: November 2012, Pt. 2: Roberto Bola√±o and David Foster Wallace
Nonfiction Previews, September 2012, Pt. 3: All in the Family, plus Bill and Hillary
Wyatt’s World: Essays for Idiosyncratic Exploration
Nonfiction Previews, August 2012, Pt. 4: Nicholson Baker and the Caliph of Baghdad
Nonfiction Previews, Aug. 2012, Pt. 2: A Memoir from Hope Solo, Essays from Neal Stephenson
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