Posts tagged with ‘Literary History’
August 6, 2012
INCISIVE, DEEPLY PERSONAL reflection on the impact of AIDS and gentrification on New York’s queer avant-garde.
Grade: B PLUS
THE GENTRIFICATION OF THE MIND: WITNESS TO A LOST IMAGINATION
University of California Press
2012
Tags: Art History, B Plus Reviews, LGBTQ Interest, Literary History, New York City, Non-Fiction, Social and Cultural Commentary
May 12, 2012
THE EXTRAORDINARY LITERARY HISTORY of gay writers in America, particularly in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Grade: B PLUS
EMINENT OUTLAWS: THE GAY WRITERS WHO CHANGED AMERICA
Grand Central
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, LGBTQ Interest, Literary History, Non-Fiction, Social and Cultural Commentary
May 3, 2012
AN ELEGANT COLLAGE OF a memoir from writer, art historian Rosamond Bernier; fun and gossipy about the greats.
Grade: SOLID B
SOME OF MY LIVES: A SCRAPBOOK MEMOIR
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2011
Tags: Art History, Literary History, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, Visual Arts
April 28, 2012
IMPECCABLY RESEARCHED BIOGRAPHY of the fascinating 19th century American Transcendentalist Margaret Fuller.
Grade: B PLUS
THE LIVES OF MARGARET FULLER: A BIOGRAPHY
W. W. Norton & Company
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Biography, History, Literary History, Non-Fiction, United States, Women's Issues
March 21, 2012
BEAUTIFULLY CURATED COLLECTION of Victorian detective stories includes old favorites and some new finds.
Grade: B PLUS
THE DEAD WITNESS: A CONNOISSEUR'S COLLECTION OF VICTORIAN DETECTIVE STORIES
Walker & Company
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Literary History, Mystery, Short Stories
February 15, 2012
ROBBERIES, FORGERIES, DRAMA abound in this history of the Shakespeare First Folio, a Holy Grail among books.
Grade: SOLID B
THE SHAKESPEARE THEFTS: IN SEARCH OF THE FIRST FOLIOS
Palgrave Macmillan
2011
Tags: Literary History, Non-Fiction, Social and Cultural Commentary, Solid B Reviews
January 16, 2012
BEAUTIFULLY NUANCED, POETIC essays on art, life, culture, and a black woman’s experience from Ntozake Shange.
Grade: B PLUS
LOST IN LANGUAGE & SOUND: OR HOW I FOUND MY WAY TO THE ARTS
St. Martin's
2011
Tags: African American Writers, B Plus Reviews, Black Writers, Cultural History, Literary History, Non-Fiction, Women's Issues
January 9, 2012
STORY-WITHIN-A-STORY starts with a bang and ends with a whimper. Even Byron can’t make this novel sizzle!
Grade: B MINUS
CHILDISH LOVES
W. W. Norton
2011
Tags: B Minus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Literary History, Novels
January 4, 2012
FUNNY, SNARKY, INSIGHTFUL celebration of romance novels, and of the ways many readers find them empowering.
Grade: SOLID B
EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LOVE I LEARNED FROM ROMANCE NOVELS
Sourcebooks
2011
Tags: Literary History, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews