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Kennedy School - The War on Illahee: Genocide, Complicity, and Cover-Ups in the Pioneer Northwest - McMenamins Pubs, Breweries and Historic Hotels

Don't miss Marc James Carpenter at McMenamin's Kennedy School History Pub discussing his new book War on Illahee:

New York City — don't Miss Jane Eisner at Park Avenue Synagogue on November 18th!
pasyn.org/events/2025-26/adult-engagement/november/carole-king-she-made-the-earth-move/

Mysteries, hoaxes, and magic: Decoding mystifying manuscripts - The Colin McEnroe Show One of the most mysterious texts in the world lives here in Connecticut. The Medieval Voynich Manuscript is at the Beinecke Library at Yale University. Scholars have been trying for over a century to decipher it. This hour, we look at the Voynich and at other examples of mysterious manuscripts from around the world. GUESTS: Lisa Fagin Davis: Professor of Practice in Manuscript Studies at the Simmons University School of Library and Information Science and Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America Garry J. Shaw: Author and journalist covering archaeology, history, and world heritage. His newest book is Cryptic: From Voynich to the Angel Diaries, the Story of the World's Mysterious Manuscripts David Weinberg: Podcast producer and writer. He is lead instructor for the Transom Traveling Workshops. He formerly worked at Marketplace and KCRW. He produced an episode about "Louie Louie" for the podcast Lost Notes MUSIC FEATURED (in order): Lost in Translation – The Neighbourhood Columba aspexit, BN 54 – Christopher Page, Emma Kirkby, Gothic Voices Secret Messages – Juliana Hatfield The Book of Love – Mike Doughty The Philosopher’s Stone – Van Morrison Louie, Louie – The Kingsmen Louie, Louie – The Sandpipers

Listen to author Garry Shaw with @ColinMcEnroe on @WNPR's The Colin McEnroe Show to talk about the Voynich manuscript and his book Cryptic! 

Jane Eisner, author of She Made the Earth Move, is coming to the JCC of Central New Jersey! Catch her talk on Monday, November 17th.
www.jccnj.org/events/2025/11/17/adult-enrichment/carole-king-she-made-the-earth-move-with-author-jane-eisner/

Exorbitant Pillage Can the U.S. dollar survive the U.S. government?

Rogoff takes on one of the biggest questions in global economics: what happens when the world's reserve currency becomes a weapon? Lael Brainard finds his answer "Highly Engaging" in @ForeignAffairs 

At the Haitian Embassy in Washington, Dr. Julia Gaffield Explores Dessalines’ Legacy as Abolitionist and Avenger Dr.

Le Nouvelliste, a major Haitian newspaper, covers Gaffield's book event at the Haitian Embassy. Read about her new book, "I Have Avenged America"!

CJLA Ezra Glinter receives the Award for Biography from juror Mark Freiman.Ruth Rifka receives the Award for Poetry from juror Rona Arato.Jennifer Lambert of Harper/Collins accepts the Award for Fiction on behalf of Ayelet Tsabari from juror Anna Porter.Simon Rabinovitch receives the Irving Abella Award...

Chaim Miller's Menachem Mendel Schneerson has won the Canadian Jewish Literary Awards' Biography Award! This deeply researched portrait of the Lubavitcher Rebbe captures a towering figure in 20th-century Jewish life. Info here:

Project MUSE - The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms by Alison L. LaCroix (review)

The Journal of Southern History praises Alison LaCroix's The Interbellum Constitution, calling it "beautifully written and meticulously researched."

John T. Shaw: Johns Hopkins scholar shows that knowing history is invaluable to statesmanship A Johns Hopkins scholar believes a skillful understanding of history can translate into practical tools for confronting contemporary problems.

"Gavin's writing is nuanced and compelling"—@chicagotribune delivers a thoughtful review of Thinking Historically on why historical thinking matters now more than ever.

Graphic Jane Austen, Punk Fanzines, and When Books Go Bad: October Books Roundup Our ongoing look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month.Cover Stories by Jamie Kamph
Another fine volume from Oak Knoll Press, with Kamph looking at over 100 bookbindings and their many and varied designs and techniques, explaining each one's journey.

Don't miss Fine Books and Collection's review of Jensen's The Master of Contradictions in their monthly book round-up!

“[W]e do inhabit, similar to the the years before modernism, a sense that our world has irrevocably changed”: An Interview with Morten Høi Jensen — Cristina Politano Morten Høi Jensen is a Danish-American writer whose recent book, The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of The Magic Mountain (Yale University Press, 2025) presents, through the l…

Minor Literature[s] interviews Morten Høi Jensen, author of The Master of Contradictions. Read now!

Book review: An insider’s account of how the US dropped the ball on North Korea | NK News “Fallout: The Inside Story of America’s Failure to Disarm North Korea” is a book likely to dismay readers.  The author Joel S. Wit, a distinguished fellow at the Henry L. Stimson Center and a former State Department official, has written a compelling insider’s history of Washington’s failure to come to grips with Pyongyang’s development of […]

Wit's new book, Fallout, is “a compelling insider’s history” and “exhaustively researched", according to Stephen Mercado of NK News.

“Zipperstein’s volume [is] composed with the tact of a historian who has read the archives and the novels with care, restoring [Roth] to the exuberant sentences he spent his life turning around.”
—Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal, in a rave review of "Philip Roth".

Amazing opportunity to celebrate--and learn more about--the life of Louise Bourgeois on Saturday, November 15th at Hauser & Wirth.
#LouiseBourgeois #booklaunch
https://www.hauserwirth.com/events/book-launch-for-louise-bourgeois-the-insomnia-drawings-and-knife-woman/

27th Annual Jewish Book Festival in Pomona presents Jane Eisner! Stop by on November 15th for an in-depth discussion on the life of Carole King, based on Eisner's new biography.
www.jewishsgpv.org/calendar/27th-annual-jewish-book-festival-presents-jane-eisner

“Thaler’s book, [Saving the Rainforest and Losing the World], is a geographical tour de force that spans continents as it interlinks government halls with plantations in an exemplary global political ecology," according to AAG Review of Books.

New Book Releases – Week of 20 Oct 2025 – Makoto Fujimura Here are a few new book releases that are worth checking out: Makoto Fujimura, Sue Monk Kidd, Niloufar Khonsari, more...

@erbks.bsky.social has featured "Art Is..." as the “Starred New Book of the Week”—"Art Is invites us to see the world in prismatic and diverse lights, helping us navigate the fractured, divisive times we live in."!

Portraits of a Mother Joy Marie Clarkson reviews Shūsaku Endō's Portraits of a Mother: A Novella and Stories

"But for Endō, these failures, however intractable, do not stand in the way of grace. The activity of grace asserts itself as an uncomfortable but incontrovertible reality, a rock on which unbelief stubs its toe." @Plough

The Author’s Corner with Marc James Carpenter Marc James Carpenter is Associate Professor of History at the University of Jamestown. This interview is based on his new book, The War on Illahee: Genocide, Complicity, and Cover-Ups in the Pionee…

read author Marc James Carpenter's conversation with John Fea for the Way of Improvement blog!

Equality Is a Struggle: Bulletins from the Front Line, 2021-2025 by Thomas Piketty is now available as an audiobook! You can listen at Apple Books, Audible, Google Play, and more. #audiobook #thomaspiketty #politics

Recursive Rivers | Commonweal Magazine In a new collection of translated works, the Japanese literary giant Shūsaku Endō wrestles with shame and the relentless pull of faith.

@commonwealmag writes on Shusaku Endo' Portraits of a Mother and recognizes the author as “a literary giant.” Read the review here!

Surrealism is better known for its strangeness than the radical politics and revolutionary ambitions of its creators For the original surrealists, dreaming was not a matter of idle fantasy but a tool for political and social transformation.

"The best recent writing on the [surrealist] movement," writes the Conversation in reference to Polizzotti's Why Surrealism Matters.

Carole King From Brooklyn Beginnings to Musical Icon with Jane Eisner and Amy E. Schwartz Jane Eisner discusses Carole King’s Jewish upbringing, the personal challenges she overcame, her decades long musical career and her activism.

Jane Eisner, author of Carole King: She Made the Earth Move, had a terrific interview with @MomentMagazine !

Mann versus man - The New Criterion On The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of “The Magic Mountain,” by Morten Høi Jensen.

Jensen's The Master of Contradictions is “a lavish work of historical analysis that doubles as a kind of psychological thriller." —The New Criterion.

‘Death to Order’ Review: Murderous Politics Successful assassinations often expose internal weaknesses and intelligence failures in the countries where they take place.

"Mr. Ball’s catalog of killings and counterkillings is... convincing. Studying assassinations is indeed like 'running a razor blade down the history of international politics.'" @WSJ

Hearing Perpetua’s voice “All of the other women martyrs we know about are either flashes in the pan or mostly made up,” says scholar and translator Sarah Ruden.

Don't miss Christian Century's substantial Q&A with Sarah Ruden, author of Perpetua, a new biography on a "second-century martyr".

Wittgenstein’s Philosophy Is Daunting. This Biography Makes Him Human. A brisk new portrait by Anthony Gottlieb emphasizes the philosopher’s restless, ambivalent mind and Viennese family background.

A "brisk new portrait", writes the New York Times Book Review on Gottlieb's new biography of Ludwig Wittgenstein.

The Psychology of Portnoy: On the Making of Philip Roth’s Groundbreaking Novel “The suburban Jewish past of the characters in the fiction of Philip Roth is also a Jewish past, only as meager as the span of a generation or two and infinitely more distasteful…” * Already …

An excerpt of Zipperstein's groundbreaking new biography on Philip Roth is now available on LitHub!

Keen On America Podcast in Wirtschaft · Täglich · Nobody asks sharper or more impertinent questions than Andrew Keen. In KEEN ON, Andrew cross-examines the world’s smartest people on politics, economics, history, the environment, and tech. If you wan ...

Catch Paul Starr on @KeenOn discussing AMERICAN CONTRADICTION and the paradoxes at the heart of American democracy.  

Amy Sherald on her portraiture, her subjects' gaze, and the impact of painting Michelle Obama's portrait Amy Sherald spent years painting in obscurity, and almost died from a rare heart condition. Now 52, the artist behind Michelle Obama's official portrait is one of America's most celebrated painters.

Anderson Cooper interviews Amy Sherald on @60Minutes pairs perfectly with Katy Hessel's AMY SHERALD monograph in the Yale Press catalog.