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Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, “This Is Really War: The Incredible True Story of a Navy Nurse POW in the Occupied Philippines” (Chicago Review Press, 2019)
Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi
This Is Really War
The Incredible True Story of a Navy Nurse POW in the Occupied Philippines
Chicago Review Press, 2019

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in BiographyNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Popular CultureNew Books Network July 19, 2019 Rebekah Buchanan

In her new book, This Is Really War: The Incredible True Story of a Navy Nurse POW in the Occupied Philippines (Chicago Review Press, 2019), Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi presents the largely unknown story of the US Navy nurses captured by the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II.... Read More
David Wellington, “The Last Astronaut” (Orbit, 2019)
David Wellington
The Last Astronaut

Orbit, 2019

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in LiteratureNew Books in Science FictionNew Books Network July 18, 2019 Rob Wolf

In The Last Astronaut (Orbit, 2019), David Wellington turns his prolific imagination—which is more often associated with earthbound monsters like zombies, vampires, and werewolves—to the threat of an alien invasion. Set in 2055, the novel introduces a NASA ill equipped to respond to the arrival of a massive object from... Read More
Sarah St. Vincent, “Ways to Hide in Winter” (Melville House, 2018)
Sarah St. Vincent
Ways to Hide in Winter

Melville House, 2018

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in LiteratureNew Books Network July 18, 2019 GP Gottlieb

After surviving a car crash that left her widowed at twenty-two, Kathleen has retreated to a remote corner of a state park, where she works flipping burgers for deer hunters and hikers—happy, she insists, to be left alone. But when a stranger appears in the dead of winter—seemingly out of... Read More
Melissa McCormick, “The Tale of Genji: A Visual Companion” (Princeton UP, 2018)
Melissa McCormick
The Tale of Genji
A Visual Companion
Princeton University Press, 2018

New Books in ArtNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network July 17, 2019 Ricarda Brosch

The Genji Album (1510) in the Harvard Art Museums is the oldest dated set of Genji illustrations known to exist. In The Tale of Genji. A Visual Companion, published by Princeton University Press in 2018, Melissa McCormick discusses all of the fifty-four paintings by Tosa Mitsunobu and calligraphies in the album, thus providing a... Read More
Brian Haara, “Bourbon Justice: How Whiskey Law Shaped America” (Potomac Books, 2015)
Brian Haara
Bourbon Justice
How Whiskey Law Shaped America
Potomac Books, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in FoodNew Books in HistoryNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network July 17, 2019 Al Zambone

Bourbon whiskey has been around since nearly the beginning of the United States. Given that longevity, it has been part of the corporate law of the United States since the beginning of the corporate law of the United States. My guest today Brian Haara traces that interconnection in his new... Read More
Carlos Garrido Castellano, “Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art” (Rutgers UP, 2019)
Carlos Garrido Castellano
Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art
Space, Politics, and the Public Sphere
Rutgers University Press, 2019

New Books in ArtNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books Network July 17, 2019 Alejandra Bronfman

A work of art about doing nothing; a work of art that invites people to take it apart; a work of art that consists of two people walking in a town in the Dominican Republic. These are just some examples Carlos Garrido Castellano takes up in Beyond Representation in Contemporary... Read More
Ann Powers, “Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music” (Dey St. Books, 2017)
Ann Powers
Good Booty
Love and Sex, Black & White, Body and Soul in American Music
Dey St. Books, 2017

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in HistoryNew Books in MusicNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Popular CultureNew Books Network July 17, 2019 Kimberly Mack

In Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music (Dey St. Books, HarperCollins, 2017), Ann Powers explores the rich and, at times, unexpected intersections of love, sex, race, gender, sexuality, and American popular music. This heavily-researched book features colorful stories about sex, eroticism, and American music, while... Read More