Literary Review: os destaques do mês de Abril

History

  • The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate the West, de Shaun Walker;
  • The Sun Rising: James I and the Dawn of a Global Britain, de Anna Whitelock;
  • Wreckers: Disaster in the Age of Discovery, de Simon Park;
  • The Einstein Vendetta: Hitler, Mussolini and a True Story of Murder, de Thomas Harding;
  • The Alienation Effect: How Central European Emigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century, de Owen Hatherley.

Biography

  • Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult, de Raphael Cormack;
  • Fearless and Free: A Memoir, de Josephine Baker;
  • Josephine Baker’s Secret War: The African American Star Who Fought for France and Freedom, de Hanna Diamond;
  • Tony Benn: A Biography, de Jad Adams;
  • The Most Dangerous Man in Britain? Tony Benn – The Political Writings, de Melissa Benn.

Exhibition

  • Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo.

Justice & Injustice

  • 38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia, de Philippe Sands;
  • The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal, de Jon Stock.

New World

  • Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America, de Russell Shorto;
  • America, América: A New History of the New World, de Greg Grandin.

Art Of The Book

  • Bound Together: Modern British Bookbinding.

Literary Lives

  • Henry James Comes Home: Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age, de Peter Brooks;
  • On Writers and Writing: Selected Essays, de Henry James;
  • William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love, de Philip Hoare;
  • The Madman’s Guide to Stamp Collecting, de Robert Irwin;
  • In Love and Revolution: Selected Poems, de Anna Akhmatova.

Art

  • Hidden Portraits: The Untold Stories of Six Women Who Loved Picasso, de Sue Roe;
  • Irascible: The Combative Life of Douglas Cooper, Collector and Friend of Picasso, de Adrian Clark & Richard Calvocoressi;
  • Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350, de Joanna Cannon, com Caroline Campbell & Stephan Wolohojian;
  • Those Passions: On Art and Politics, de T J Clark.

Man & Nature

  • The Drowned Places: Diving in Search of Atlantis, de Damian Le Bas.

Memoir

  • When the Going Was Good: An Editor’s Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines, de Graydon Carter;
  • The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir, de Edmund White;
  • Undercover: Two Secret Lives, de Tony Scotland;
  • Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance, de Joe Dunthorne.

General

  • Food Fight: From Plunder and Profit to People and Planet, de Stuart Gillespie;
  • The Ideological Brain: A Radical Science of Susceptible Minds, de Leor Zmigrod;
  • That Dark Spring: A True Story of Death and Desire in 1920s Provence, de Susannah Stapleton.

Fiction

  • Vanishing World, de Sayaka Murata;
  • Sleeping Children, de Anthony Passeron;
  • Nothing Grows by Moonlight, de Torborg Nedreaas;
  • Audition, de Katie Kitamura;
  • Small Boat, de Vincent Delecroix;
  • Idle Grounds, de Krystelle Bamford;
  • One Boat, de Jonathan Buckley;
  • Call Me Ishmaelle, de Xiaolu Guo.

Fiction in Brief

  • On the Clock, de Claire Baglin;
  • Wildcat Dome, de Yuko Tsushima;
  • Stag Dance, de Torrey Peters.

Boas leituras.

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