Literary Review: os destaques de Março


LITERARY LIVES
Emile Zola: A Determined Life, de Robert Lethbridge
Changing My Mind, de Julian Barnes
Shakespeare’s Tragic Art, de Rhodri Lewis
Shakespeare is Hard, but So is Life, de Fintan O’Toole

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HISTORY
Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan, de Richard Overy
Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War, de Lyndal Roper
The Golden Throne: The Curse of a King, de Christopher de Bellaigue
Maria Theresa: Empress – The Making of the Austrian Enlightenment, de Richard Bassett
The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War, de Charlie English

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ART & ARCHITECTURE
Gilbert & George and the Communists, de James Birch
Turner and Constable: Art, Life, Landscape, de Nicola Moorby
Islamesque: The Forgotten Craftsmen Who Built Europe’s Medieval Monuments, de Diana Darke

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CORRIDORS OF POWER
Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer, de Patrick Maguire & Gabriel Pogrund
Ungovernable: The Political Diaries of a Chief Whip, de Simon Hart

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FOREIGN PARTS
Baltic: The Future of Europe, de Oliver Moody
A History of Crimea: From Antiquity to the Present, de Kerstin S. Jobst (traduzido do alemão por John Heath)
The North Pole: The History of an Obsession, de Erling Kagge (Traduzido do norueguês por Kari Dickson)
A Training School for Elephants, de Sophy Roberts

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FREE THINKING
What is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea, de Fara Dabhoiwala
Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought, de Bruno Leipold
Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal, de Quentin Skinner

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HEALTH
In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us, de Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee
The Age of Diagnosis: Sickness, Health and Why Medicine Has Gone Too Far, de Suzanne O’Sullivan

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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman, de Didier Eribon (traduzido do francês por Michael Lucey)
John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs, de Ian Leslie
Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live, de Susan Morrison
The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong’s Greatest Dissident, and China’s Most Feared Critic, de Mark L. Clifford

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GENERAL
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species is on the Edge of Extinction, de Henry Gee
The Mad Files: Writers and Cartoonists on the Magazine That Warped America’s Brain!, de David Mikics (ed.)
Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress and Doctor Crippen, de Hallie Rubenhold

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POETRY
One Little Room, de Peter McDonald
Invasion of the Polyhedrons, de Will Eaves
Not Waving but Drowning and Other Poems, de Stevie Smith

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FICTION
Dream Count, de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Theft, de Abdulrazak Gurnah
Universality, de Natasha Brown
Perspectives, de Laurent Binet (traduzido do francês por Sam Taylor)
Perfection, de Vincenzo Latronico (traduzido do italiano por Sophie Hughes)
Twist, de Colum McCann
The Dream Hotel, de Laila Lalami
Flesh, de David Szalay
Living in Your Light, de Abdellah Taïa (traduzido do francês por Emma Ramadan)
33 Place Brugmann, de Alice Austen

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FICTION IN BRIEF
There’s No Turning Back, de Alba de Céspedes (traduzido do italiano por Ann Goldstein)
The Tiger’s Share, de Keshava Guha
Nova Scotia House, de Charlie Porter

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