"[T]his book is a crucial step in transforming 'tacky' into beauty -- and exposing the next generation to the realities of a more polychromatic, multicultural, and complex past."
#MetMuseum #sculpture #ancientworld
"[T]his book is a crucial step in transforming 'tacky' into beauty -- and exposing the next generation to the realities of a more polychromatic, multicultural, and complex past."
#MetMuseum #sculpture #ancientworld
“William C. Carter's achievement is a considerable gift to lovers of Proust, not only in the Anglophone world, but everywhere ...It is a delight to see this project brought to completion," writes David Bentley Hart, on a new edition and annotation of Proust's 'Time Regained'.
24.02.2026 16:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Englewood Review of Books includes "Make Your Home in This Luminous Dark" in its list of Spring 2026’s Top 10 Most Anticipated Books for Christian readers!
23.02.2026 15:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Starr lays bare in abundant detail how transformations in the American economy forestalled the broader economic gains for African Americans that one might have expected after the strides made in the 1960s." @DemJournal
22.02.2026 21:02 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
"An ambitious study . . . [the book] is a welcome addition to this area of scholarship." —Susan Gorgioski @thecipherbrief on THE RETURN OF RUSSIA.
Christie's has named Mahon's 'Dorothea Tanning' as "One of the Best New Art Books of 2026"!
Curious about whether ancients were happier and the steps they took to do so? Listen to author Michael Scott's feature on the Hack your Happiness Podcast, now on Spotify!
22.02.2026 15:02 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
@nybooks reviews Our Dollar, Your Problem in their new article, The Struggle for the Fed:
21.02.2026 22:02 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A new excerpt on pigeons, from Jones's 'Beastly Britain', has just been published in Plough! Read on below.
Read this new review in @newcriterion on Themistocles: The Rise and Fall of Athens’s Naval Mastermind! "This is an illuminating biography, bringing to life the early classical world in stunning detail."
The New York Review of Books ran an excerpt of Françoise Ega's brilliant 'Notes to a Black Woman', translated by Emma Ramadan.
"If James Scott was right, and grains, such as wheat, led to the formation of early states, then cotton lies at the base of empire. And what is an empire but pure cruelty?" @criveragarza @nytimes
20.02.2026 22:02 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
@WSJ includes 'Jean Paul Gaultier: Catwalk', in their list of "The 20 Best Coffee Table Books for 2026".
Chemerinsky and Gillman's 'Campus Speech and Academic Freedom' has been reviewed by Inside Higher Ed! Read more below.
Dault's 'The Accessorized Bible' was included in the Englewood Review of Books's spring roundup of "Most Anticipated Books of 2026"!
"Bernadac is a deft stage manager, knowing just when to bring certain details and artworks into view. And hat tip to Lauren Elkin for her agile translation of Bernadac and Bourgeois." —Prudence Peiffer, Bookforum, on 'Knife-Woman'.
19.02.2026 17:05 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join us at the College Art Association's annual meeting to browse our latest art and architecture books from the past year. Save 30% for a limited time: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/caa26/
#art #books #nonfiction
"Sovereignty and Religious Freedom: A Jewish History is a remarkable and exhaustive account of the diverse array of the ways in which Jews have been organized, addressed, empowered, and policed by the laws of the modern state." —Alexander Kaye, Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies
14.02.2026 21:01 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Book recs from Katy Hessel, including Knife-Woman: The Life of Louise Bourgeois by Marie-Laure Bernadac and translated by Lauren Elkin.
#biography #LouiseBourgeois #womenartists
https://katyhessel.substack.com/i/184202038/6-things-to-read
"Gaffield’s book, 'I Have Avenged America', sets the record straight in a carefully researched and compelling account of [Jean-Jacques Dessalines's] revolutionary life." —Carolyn Fick, Journal of Military History
13.02.2026 18:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"An important contribution to both scholarly and popular understandings of the struggle against slavery, the age of revolutions, anticolonial revolt, and Caribbean history." —Amanda Perry, H-Net Reviews, on Gaffield's 'I Have Avenged America'.
13.02.2026 14:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"Sovereignty and Religious Freedom—Simon Rabinovitch’s ambitious, elegant, and important book—challenges foundational assumptions of modern Jewish historiography." —Julie E. Cooper, Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies
12.02.2026 22:01 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Keep your eye out for Kirkus' detailed review of Higham's 'How England Began', coming out online next week and to print in March!
12.02.2026 18:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Author David Dault ('The Accessorized Bible') makes an appearance on Shifting Culture! Listen to the interview below.
"This first biography of Marshall eloquently makes the case for restoring the author to a place of prominence in the literary canon"—@BookPage on Mary Helen Washington's essential new biography of Paule Marshall.
11.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0"This is the first full biography of Paule Marshall, and I can’t think of a better person to write it. Complemented by her expert literary analysis, Mary Helen Washington’s 40-plus-year friendship with Marshall offers an extraordinary perspective on Marshall’s life and work." —Ms. Magazine
11.02.2026 21:01 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"[Dozeman]... presents a fascinating analysis," writes Reading Religion in a new review of Dozeman's translation and comments on Joshua 13-24. Learn more below!
Don't miss Inside Higher Ed's latest review of Chemerinsky and Gillman's 'Campus Speech and Academic Freedom', written by John K. Wilson!
"Gordon takes care to paint a picture of [Walter Benjamin's] complex character, spanning his utopian youth to his devastating final days." —Emily Watlington, Art in America, for its February recommended reading list.
10.02.2026 15:30 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0"Of the recent works that wrestle with [the histories of medicine], this one is a standout. [Strasser and Schlich's 'The Mask'] puts our struggles with COVID in the context of a long history of mask use to protect human health." —Nancy Tomes, Technology and Culture
09.02.2026 20:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0