Naked Alma
June 5, 2008
The painter and his mistress, nude.
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booknotes
May 16, 2008Mao’s Last Revolution
Roderick Macfarquhar and Michael Schoenhals
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006
Empire of Blue Water
Stephan Talty
Crown Publishers New York 2007
Read this week two books, both of them ultimately unsatisfying.
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Shakespeare’s Wife
May 1, 2008
Germain Greere: Shakespeare’s Wife. Harper Collins, New York, 2007
My public library is, to put it mildly, rather dilatory about getting in new books with any claim to scholarship higher than the latest political tell-all. So this book, a biography of Ann Hathaway (Dr. Greer prefers to Ann to Anne, Annis or Agnes) is a pleasant surprise–brand new!) Just for that reason I would have checked it out. (more…)
