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Irina Georgescu
Carpathia
Food from the Heart of Romania
Interlink Books, 2020

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Eastern European Studies New Books in Food New Books in Peoples & Places New Books Network March 27, 2020 Jennifer Eremeeva

Romania is a land of crossroads: of empire, of geography, and culture, shaped by centuries of rule by the Greeks, Ottomans, and Hapsburgs. The dramatically different geographic regions of Romania include flat plains and soaring mountain peaks, as well as the Danube Delta. But wherever you go in this fascinating... Read More

Kunio Hara
Joe Hisaishi's Soundtrack for My Neighbor Totoro Soundtrack

Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in East Asian Studies New Books in Film New Books in Music New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Popular Culture March 26, 2020 Kristen M. Turner

A beloved Japanese anime move released in 1988, My Neighbor Totoro tells the story of two sisters, Satsuki and Mei, as they deal with the separation from their mother who is in the hospital, and their adventures with the forest creatures they meet called the Totoro. In Joe Hisaishi’s Soundtrack... Read More

Joseph Reagle
Hacking Life:
Systematized Living and its Discontents
MIT Press, 2019

New Books in Anthropology New Books in Communications New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Popular Culture New Books in Science, Technology, and Society New Books in Sociology New Books Network March 26, 2020 John Danaher

Life hackers track and analyze the food they eat, the hours they sleep, the money they spend, and how they’re feeling on any given day. They share tips on the most efficient ways to tie shoelaces and load the dishwasher; they employ a tomato-shaped kitchen timer as a time-management tool.... Read More

Ken Liu
The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

Gallery/Saga Press, 2020

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Literature New Books in Science Fiction New Books Network March 26, 2020 Rob Wolf

Ken Liu’s second collection of speculative stories explores migration, memory, and a post-human future through the eyes of parents and their children. Whether his characters are adjusting to life on a new planet or grappling with moral quandaries—like whether a consciousness uploaded to a server is still human—they struggle with the age-old... Read More

James Rosone, “Rigged” (Front Line, 2019)

James Rosone and Miranda Watson
Rigged

Front Line, 2019

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Literature New Books Network March 25, 2020 Lawrence McCarren

In military thrillers, many authors attempt to create plausible conflicts and many come up short, but James Rosone and Miranda Watson‘s Rigged (Front Line ,2019), Book one of “The Falling Empire Series,” is a chilling what if scenario that is all too plausible. Rigged paints a tale that appears to... Read More

Stephen Jenkinson
Come of Age
The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble
North Atlantic Books, 2018

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Literature New Books Network March 25, 2020 Eric LeMay

Today I interviewed Stephen Jenkinson. He’s not only an author, an activist, a musician, and the founder of a school, but also an inspired etymologist, a spiritual trickster, and a mythopoetic storyteller cracking sticks and tossing them into a low fire as the spirits in the embers rise with his... Read More

Julie Carlson
Great Books: Julie Carlson on Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'

Think About It, 2019

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in British Studies New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Science, Technology, and Society March 24, 2020 Uli Baer

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley wrote Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus when she was nineteen years old, on a bet. The novel spawned two centuries of creatures that turn against their makers. It examines the limits of scientific innovation, whether the quest for knowledge must be tempered by morality, and why... Read More