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Gill Paul, “The Lost Daughter” (William Morrow, 2019)
Gill Paul
The Lost Daughter

Harper Collins, 2019

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Historical FictionNew Books in LiteratureNew Books Network September 16, 2019 Jennifer Eremeeva

Grand Duchess Maria Romanova arrives in Ekaterinburg in 1918 with her parents, the former Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra. After months of house arrest in the deep interior of Russia, the family is beginning to despair of ever being rescued. As conditions worsen, Maria and her family are... Read More
Kenneth Olwig, “The Meanings of Landscape: Essays on Place, Space, Nature and Justice” (Routledge, 2019)
Kenneth Olwig
The Meanings of Landscape
Essays on Place, Space, Nature and Justice
Routledge, 2019

New Books in ArchitectureNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in Science & Technology September 13, 2019 Tricia Keffer

In The Meanings of Landscape: Essays on Place, Space, Nature and Justice (Routledge, 2019), Kenneth Olwig presents explorations in landscape geography and architecture from an environmental humanities perspective. With influence from art, literature, theatre staging, architecture, and garden design, landscape has now come to be viewed as a form of... Read More
Chelene Knight, “Dear Current Occupant” (Book*hug, 2018)
Chelene Knight
Dear Current Occupant

Book*hug, 2018

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in LiteratureNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network September 12, 2019 Eric LeMay

Today, I’m talking with Chelene Knight. She’s written a new memoir called Dear Current Occupant (Book*hug, 2018). And as her title suggests, it’s a letter of sorts, one written to those people who might now be occupying one of many places she and her family lived back when she was... Read More
Cadwell Turnbull, “The Lesson” (Blackstone Publishing, 2019)
Cadwell Turnbull
The Lesson

Blackstone Publishing, 2019

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in LiteratureNew Books in Science FictionNew Books Network September 12, 2019 Rob Wolf

In Cadwell Turnbull’s The Lesson (Blackstone Publishing, 2019), the U.S. Virgin Islands serve as Earth’s entry point for the Ynaa, beings from a far corner of the universe whose intentions and desires are as complex as the humans who come to loathe them. The Ynaa (pronounced EE-nah) claim to come... Read More
Mark Winne, “Food Town USA: Seven Unlikely Cities that are Changing the Way We Eat” (Island Press, 2019)
Mark Winne
Food Town USA
Seven Unlikely Cities that are Changing the Way We Eat
Island Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in FoodNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network September 12, 2019 Michael O. Johnston

Cities are extremely complex institutions to understand and are continually changing. A central place to make sense of the complexities of a city is the food that is grown and sold in these areas.  Mark Winne, author of Food Town USA: Seven Unlikely Cities that are Changing the Way We... Read More
Aaron Hale-Dorrell, “Corn Crusade: Khrushchev’s Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Aaron Hale-Dorrell
Corn Crusade
Khrushchev’s Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union
Oxford University Press, 2018

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in FoodNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network September 11, 2019 Samantha Lomb

In Corn Crusade: Khrushchev’s Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union (Oxford University Press, 2018), Aaron Hale-Dorrell re-evaluates Khrushchev’s corn campaign as the cornerstone of his reformation programs. Corn was key to Khrushchev’s promises of providing everyone with the abundance required for achieving communism, which included the introduction of a... Read More
Rico Isaacs, “Film and Identity in Kazakhstan: Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture in Central Asia” (I.B. Tauris, 2018)
Rico Isaacs
Film and Identity in Kazakhstan
Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture in Central Asia
I. B. Tauris, 2018

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Central Asian StudiesNew Books in FilmNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesNew Books Network September 9, 2019 Nicholas Seay

In Film and Identity in Kazakhstan: Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture in Central Asia (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Rico Isaacs uses cinema as an analytical tool to demonstrate the constructed and contested nature of Kazakh national identity. By first tracing the evolution of Kazakh national identity formation and then analyzing data from... Read More