New Books in Arts & Letters

Ross King
Seoul
Memory, Reinvention and the Korean Wave
University of Hawaii Press, 2018

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Seoul, as any listener who has visited will recognize, can be a pretty overwhelming place. This is well recognized by Ross King, Professorial Fellow in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, who notes… Read More

Laura Kalba, “Color in the Age of Impressionism: Commerce, Technology, and Art” (Penn State UP, 2018)

Laura Kalba
Color in the Age of Impressionism
Commerce, Technology, and Art
Penn State University Press, 2018

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When you imagine the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century, what colors do you see? Whatever comes to mind, Laura Kalba’s, Color in the Age of Impressionism: Commerce, Technology, and Art (Penn State University Press, 2018) will change the way you… Read More

Helen Bones
The Expatriate Myth
New Zealand Writers and the Colonial World
Otago University Press, 2018

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In her new book, The Expatriate Myth: New Zealand Writers and the Colonial World (Otago University Press, 2018), Helen Bones, a Research Associate in Digital Humanities at Western Sydney University, presents a new look at late nineteenth and early… Read More

Sandra Allen
A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise
A True Story about Schizophrenia
Scribner, 2018

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What is it really like to have a family member with serious mental illness? Sandra Allen’s unique book, A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise: A True Story about Schizophrenia (Scribner, 2018), addresses this question. In the book, a hybrid between memoir… Read More

Samuel England, “Medieval Empires and the Cultures of Competition: Literary Duels at Islamic and Christian Courts” (Edinburgh UP, 2017)

Samuel England
Medieval Empires and the Cultures of Competition
Literary Duels at Islamic and Christian Courts
Edinburgh University Press, 2017

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In his thrilling and sparkling new book, Medieval Empires and the Cultures of Competition: Literary Duels at Islamic and Christian Courts (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), Samuel England, Assistant Professor of Arabic at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, analyzes with remarkable… Read More

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