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November 15, 2017

Book Review: The Big Book of the Continental Op

November 15, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

All of Dashiell Hammett's stories and novels featuring the Continental Op, collected in one volume for the first time.

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November 15, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction
Dashiell Hammett, detective fiction, fiction, November 2017, Steve Donoghue
October 12, 2017

Book Review: The Big Book of Rogues and Villains

October 12, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

The latest enormous anthology from Otto Penzler features the dandies of the demimonde, the stylish thieves and ruthless killers of popular fiction.

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October 12, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction
fiction, October 2017, otto penzler, Steve Donoghue, the big book of rogues and villains
September 26, 2017

Book Review: Lightning Men

September 26, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

Racially charged 1950 Atlanta is the setting for Thomas Mullen's brutal, terrific new crime thriller.

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September 26, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction
fiction, lightning men, open letters weekly 17, September 2017, thomas mullen
September 01, 2017

Book Review: The World of Tomorrow

September 01, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

The fates of three very different Irish brothers in prewar Manhattan intertwine in Brendan Mathews' impressive debut novel.

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September 01, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction
brendan mathews, fiction, open letters weekly 17, September 2017, the world of tomorrow
September 01, 2017

Book Review: The Future Won't Be Long

September 01, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

An '80s club kid wises up and gets all sad and melancholy in Jarett Kobek's follow-up to this surprise hit "I Hate the Internet"

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September 01, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction
fiction, jarett kobek, open letters weekly 17, September 2017, the future won't be long
August 31, 2017

The Clean Light of Morning

August 31, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

It wasn't a fat, sick, wife-killing madman who came to the English throne in 1509 - as a new book reminds readers, it was a glorious teenage prince.

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August 31, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Features, Fiction, Politics & History
fiction, September 2017, Steve Donoghue
August 28, 2017

Book Review: The Party

August 28, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

A smart new novel looks back through fractured viewpoints at the dramatic events of a party at an English country house.

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August 28, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction
August 2017, elizabeth day, fiction, open letters weekly 17, the party
August 23, 2017

Book Review: Judgment at Appomattox

August 23, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

The bitter final weeks of the American Civil War form backdrop of Ralph Peters' dark, powerful latest novel.

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August 23, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
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August 2017, fiction, judgment at appomattox, open letters weely 17, ralph peters
August 17, 2017

Book Review: One Summer Day in Rome

August 17, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

The lives of five visiting Americans are forever changed by their short but eventful stays in the Eternal City.

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August 17, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
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August 2017, fiction, mark lamprell, One summer day in rome, open letters weekly 17
August 17, 2017

Book Review: The Paris Spy

August 17, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

The unsinkable Maggie Hope is on the case again in Susan Elia MacNeal's latest historical whodunit - this time set in Nazi-occupied Paris.

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August 17, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction
August 2017, fiction, maggie hope, olweekly 17, susan elia macneal, the paris spy
August 08, 2017

Book Review: The Half-Drowned King

August 08, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

The first installment in a projected series about a wily Viking warrior, his leader - and the women in his life

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August 08, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction
August 2017, fiction, linnea hartsuyker, open letters weekly 17, the half-drowned king
August 08, 2017

Book Review: The Seventh Function of Language

August 08, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

Was the death of literary theorist Roland Barthes in 1980 the result of a simple traffic accident - or part of a deeper plot? Laurent Binet's new novel takes readers into the weird world of ginned-up semiology.

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Fiction
August 2017, fiction, laurent binet, open letters weekly 17, the seventh function of language
August 07, 2017

Book Review: A Talent for Murder

August 07, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

Andrew Wilson's new novel dramatizes the real-life ten-day disappearance of mystery novelist Agatha Christie nearly a century ago - and adds a touch of murder.

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August 07, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction
a talent for murder, Agatha Christie, andrew wilson, August 2017, fiction, open letters weekly
July 31, 2017

The World in Her Image

July 31, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

Bestselling author of Tudor historical fiction Philippa Gregory takes up the familiar tragedy of Lady Jane Grey - and her forgotten but equally compelling sisters - in her new book, as A Year with the Tudors II continues.

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July 31, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Features, Fiction, Literary Criticism, History, Politics & History
August 2017, fiction, literary criticism, Steve Donoghue
July 24, 2017

Book Review: Grace

July 24, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

A young girl in 19th-century Ireland sets off on a dangerous odyssey with her even-younger brother in Paul Lynch's new novel.

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July 24, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
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fiction, grace, July 2017, open letters weekly 17, paul lynch
July 19, 2017

Book Review: Bed-Stuy is Burning

July 19, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

A debut novel tackles the volatile issues of gentrification and police brutality.

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July 19, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction
bed-stuy is burning, brian platzer, fiction, July 2017, open letters weekly 17
July 17, 2017

Book Review: The Epiphany Machine

July 17, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

A mysterious machine gives people tattoos that reveal deep oracular truths about themselves - and drives one young man to understand it all.

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July 17, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
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david burr gerrard, fiction, July 2017, open letters weekly 17, the epiphany machine
July 12, 2017

Book Review: See What I Have Done

July 12, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

Book Review: See What I Have Done

The famous Lizzie Borden axe-murders are 125 years old in 2017, and a new debut novel explores the horrors from the viewpoints of several people directly involved.

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July 12, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
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fiction, July 2017, lizzie borden, open letters weekly 17, sarah schmidt, see what I have done
July 10, 2017

Book Review: We Shall Not All Sleep

July 10, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

The centuries-old rivalry between two families erupts in new tensions during one summer on a small island off the coast of Maine

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July 10, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction
estep nagy, fiction, July 2017, open letters weekly 17, we shall not all sleep
July 04, 2017

Book Review: The New Annotated Frankenstein

July 04, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

Mary Shelley's indomitable horror classic gets a sumptuous new annotated edition.

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July 04, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
fiction, July 2017, leslie klinger, literary criticism, Mary Shelley, open letters weekly 17, the new annotated frankenstein
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