Literary Review: os destaques do mês de Maio

Literary Lives
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, de Francesca Wade;
Johannes Gutenberg: A Biography in Books, de Eric Marshall White;
Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker, de Zachary Leader;

The State We’re In
Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead, de Kenneth Rogoff;
These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means, de Christopher Summerfield;
Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life, de Tiffany Jenkins;

Unwritten Books
Dianaworld: An Obsession, de Edward White;
Blaise Pascal: The Man Who Made the Modern World, de Graham Tomlin;
Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America’s Cold War Prophet, de Edward Luce;
Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent, de Iain Pears;

History
The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, de Robert Darnton;
The Shortest History of France, de Colin Jones;
‘I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer’: Letters on Love & Marriage from the World’s First Personal Advice Column, de Mary Beth Norton (ed.);
A Calculated Restraint: What Allied Leaders Said about the Holocaust, de Richard Breitman;
Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, de Clay Risen;
National Service Life Stories: Masculinity, Class, and the Memory of Conscription in Britain, de Peter Gurney, Matthew Grant & Joel Morley;

Foreign Parts
How to Save the Amazon: A Journalist’s Deadly Quest for Answers, de Dom Phillips;
Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore, de Manan Ahmed Asif;
The Buried City: Unearthing the Real Pompeii, de Gabriel Zuchtriegel (traduzido por Jamie Bulloch);

Natural World
Is a River Alive?, de Robert Macfarlane;
Of Thorn & Briar: A Year with the West Country Hedgelayer, de Paul Lamb;

Memoir
The Heart-Shaped Tin: Love, Loss and Kitchen Objects, de Bee Wilson;
Chopping Onions on My Heart: On Losing and Preserving Culture, de Samantha Ellis;
Maybe I’m Amazed: A Story of Love and Connection in Ten Songs, de John Harris;

Language
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global, de Laura Spinney;
Speaking in Tongues, de J. M. Coetzee & Mariana Dimópulos;

General
Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever: A New Generation’s Search for Religion, de Lamorna Ash;
Scouse Republic, de David Swift;
Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain, de Sam Wetherell;
No Ordinary Deaths: A People’s History of Mortality, de Molly Conisbee;
Fatherhood: A History of Love and Power, de Augustine Sedgewick;
The Gender of Sound, de Anne Carson;
Capitalism and Its Critics: A Battle of Ideas in the Modern World, de John Cassidy;
The Last Bell: Life, Death and Boxing, de Donald McRae;

Fiction
Parallel Lines, de Edward St Aubyn;
Ripeness, de Sarah Moss;
The Director, de Daniel Kehlmann (traduzido por Ross Benjamin);
The Emperor of Gladness, de Ocean Vuong;
The Propagandist, de Cécile Desprairies (traduzido por Natasha Lehrer);
Open, Heaven, de Seán Hewitt;
The Boys, de Leo Robson;
Sakina’s Kiss, de Vivek Shanbhag (traduzido por Srinath Perur);
The Deserters, de Mathias Enard (traduzido por Charlotte Mandell);

Fiction in Brief
Albion, de Anna Hope;
Shibboleth, de Thomas Peermohamed Lambert;
The Book of Guilt, de Catherine Chidgey.

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