The best books onExoplanets Chris Impey, Scientist Buy now Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace byJames Costa Radical by Natureis a biography ofAlfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), the English naturalist who came up with the idea of 'transmutation' (now called evolut...
Filed under Books Tagged as 2020, Biography, Book, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, New Books, Non fiction, Novels, Publishing, Reading, Translated Fiction May 26, 2019 · 3:13 pm Saltwater by Jessica Andrews You would be forgiven for thinking that I had pretty much abandoned fiction ...
Author biography Critics' Consensus: The Door-to-Door Bookstore: A Novel by Carsten Henn Publishing: Dec 10, 2024 The charming international bestseller about an unlikely friendship between an elderly door-to-door bookseller and a nine-year-old girl that changes his life. ...
The Best History Books of 2023: The Wolfson History Prize Sudhir Hazareesingh, Political Scientist Buy now Kennan: A Life between Worlds by Frank Costigliola Kennan: A Life between Worlds is an excellent biography of George Kennan, the American diplomat and Russophile who first raised alarm...
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Welcome to the 113th update of the Oxford DNB, which adds sixteen new articles and seven portrait likenesses. Entries in this release have a special focus on the lives of early modern noblewomen in Britain. From August 2024, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford DNB) offers ...
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Contemporary biography, a little like pointilliste painting, has one major pitfall. Will all those millions of dots ever coalesce into a portrait? Will the cumulation of purported facts and detail, culled from sources however wide and unprecedented, come together to make a life worth reading?App...
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“publications” include CDs, performances, collaborations (with no less than Chuck Close), documentaries and books, for a man with his own personal griot, Holman keeps his ego firmly under his porkpie hat. It was with curiosity, then, that I read his latest, a biography-in-persona-poems ...