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Andreas Beyer’s Benvenuto Cellini and the Embodiment of the Modern Artist: This biography situates Cellini more appropriately in the transition that lies between the Renaissance and the modern era.

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Listen now: Murder in the Cathedral

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Listen now: Gerri Kimber talks about Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf

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Carol Atack, "Plato: A Civic Life" (Reaktion, 2025) - New Books Network Support H-Net | Buy Books Here | Join the NBN and NBN en Español on Patreon | Visit New Books Network en Español!

Listen now: Carol Atack is on the New Books Network talking about Plato

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and if you're interested in finding more about @katrinanavickas.bsky.social's work, check out her brilliant upcoming book 'Contested Commons: A History of Protest and Public Space in England' (with @reaktionbooks.bsky.social)!

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What is English Christianity? Peter Ackroyd sees a special historical relationship between the development of a distinctively English sensibility and that of the English...

Peter Ackroyd sees a special historical relationship between the development of a distinctively English sensibility and that of the English church.

Sam Gee reviews The English Soul: www.christiancentury.org/books/what-e...
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Check out Sharon Kingsland's review of Elizabeth Lawson's "Moss and Lichen," published in 2024 by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #histsci #planthist
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Memoirs from the dance floor — the nocturnal universes of New York, London and Berlin

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I just received the first copies of my book and I have to say it’s looking gorgeous! 😍 Thank you @reaktionbooks.bsky.social for making such a beautiful book #earlymodern

Unraveling Ravel

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NEXT FRIDAY! Get your tickets to see Liz Williams as she discusses all things British folk customs

Slaughter for Hire: From Africa to Ukraine, the rise and fall of the Wagner Group and its leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, was marked by theatrical violence, the seizure of resources, and an utter lack of accountability.

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At the Chinese Table: To understand the Chinese through their culinary history is to see them in their best lights—as inventive, adaptable, egalitarian, and open-minded.

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YouTube video by Radio Študent IndieRE 2.0 Conference: Contemporary Discourses On Music 1/2

Last year I delivered a lecture for the IndieRE 2.0 conference in Ljubljana. From around the 2hr45m mark here, if you're interested, I reflect on writing Electric Wizards & touch on other issues e.g. the lack of criticism in music criticism. @reaktionbooks.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi9q...

Caught in the vortex

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Good to catch up with lots of medievalists at Lindy Grant's book launch for Eleanor of Aquitaine in @reaktionbooks.bsky.social medieval lives series.

Marvin Trachtenberg, Brunelleschi and the Moment of the Renaissance (@reaktionbooks.bsky.social, 2025; #skystorians): reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/brunell... / press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

The Broken Compass: 22 Books to Look Out for in September

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Our Week in Reviews: 9/27/25. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/our... @grandcentralpub.bsky.social @orbooks.bsky.social @aaknopf.bsky.social @reaktionbooks.bsky.social #booksky

The Perilous Deep: A Supernatural History of the Atlantic | Washington Independent Review of Books The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.

An extensive account of an otherworldly ocean. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/t... @reaktionbooks.bsky.social @karlbell.bsky.social #booksky

Listen now: Your best shot — A coffee sceptic's quest for perfection

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Entering perhaps the best season in which to read Karl Bell's superbly entertaining 'The Perilous Deep: A Supernatural History of the Atlantic' (which I had the pleasure of editing for
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Karl previously won the Katharine Briggs Award.

'Cooke answers questions you didn’t know you had, like “When were hotdogs served to royalty?” (You’ll need to buy the book for that one.)'

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What We Eat: According to a delicious art form

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'Her book is a meandering amble up and down the centuries, letting her inquisitive mind and sharp ear take her and her reader to many an odd little corner.'

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Drake goes to Berghain, listens to ‘industrial techno for three hours’

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'Winter Dreams: A Historical Guide to Old Age is an interesting and educational glimpse into a typically overlooked group.'

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Triptych: Libraries and Loneliness

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Read now: Library Journal reviews Maurice Ravel by Emily Kilpatrick

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‘This is a portrait of a man who remained aloof and apart from a musical establishment that treated him warily almost from the beginning’

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