New Books at PEOSTA

Reviewed: TLS 11 Nov. 2016 p. 28

Reviewed: NYT/BR 29 Jan. 2017 p. 8; WSJ 11 Feb. 2017 p. C6; LR March 2017 p. 32

Reviewed: CHE 21 May 2017 (new books)

Reviewed: Choice Aug 2016 vol. 53 no. 12 (Essential; Top 75 Titles Recommended for Community College Libraries; Outstanding Academic Title)

Reviewed: NYT/BR 21 May 2017 p. 24; WSJ 18 May 2017 p. A13; TLS 19 Jan. 2018 p. 8.

Reviewed: WSJ 8/9 Apr. 2017 p. C15

Reviewed: NYRB 21 Dec. 2017 p. 38.

Reviewed: WSJ 27/28 May 2017 p. c10

Reviewed: TLS 4 Nov. 2016 p. 12; NYRB 6 Apr. 2017 p. 31

Reviewed: WSJ 10 Apr. 2107 p. A15

Reviewed: Choice Oct 2016 vol. 54 no. 2 (Essential; Recommended for Community College Libraries; Outstanding Academic Title)
Contents: (1) Harriet Beecher Stowe and the “Book That Made This Great War”; (2) The American Book Trade and the Civil War; (3) The Transatlantic History of Civil War Literature; (4) The “American Renaissance” after the American Civil War; (5) The Realists’ Civil War; (6) Dépôt Culture: The Civil War and Periodical Fiction; (7) Imitation and Resistance in Civil War Poetry and Song; (8) Children’s Literature; (9) Writing Lives: Civil War Diaries; (10) Civil War Memoir; (11) Civil War Narrative History; (12) Walt Whitman; (13) War and the Art of Writing: Emily Dickinson’s Relational Aesthetics; (14) Herman Melville and the Civilian Author; (15) Looking at Lincoln; (16) Frederick Douglass, Violence, and Abraham Lincoln; (17) Mary Boykin Chesnut: Epic and Minature; (18) Mark Twain; (19) Replay : William Faulkner and the Civil War; (20) Robert Penn Warren’s Civil War; (21) Natasha Trethewey’s Civil War; (22) Afterword: Archiving the War.

Reviewed: NYT/BR 4 Dec. 2016 p. 82

Description: Fitzgerald shows the reader with little or no knowledge of the Latin language how it works as a unique vehicle for poetic expression and thought. Moving between close analysis of particular Latin poems and more general discussions of Latin poets, literature, and society, Fitzgerald gives the un-Latined reader an insider’s view of how Latin poetry feels and what makes it worth reading, even today.

Reviewed: TLS 25 Nov. 2016 p. 34

Reviewed: CHE 20 Jan. 2017; Choice Jun 2017 vol. 54 no. 10 (Recommended)

Reviewed: Choice Aug 2017 vol. 54 no. 12 (Recommended; Recommended for community college library collections)

Reviewed: NYT/BR 4 Dec. 2016 p. 69

Reviewed: CHE 14 Oct. 2016

Reviewed: CHE 14 Oct. 2016
Description: Discusses Prince Valiant, Green Arrow, Thor, Conan, Red Sonja, Beowulf, and Northlanders.

Reviewed: NYRB 22 Dec. 2016 p. 40; Choice May 2017 vol. 54 no. 9 (Essential; Recommended for Community College Libraries); TLS 24 mar. 2017 p. 23.

Reviewed: TLS 14 Apr. 2017 p. 8; FA 96(3) May/June 2017 p. 163; LRB 4 May 2017 p. 11; NYRB 13 July 2017 p. 44; Economist 9 Dec. 2017 p. 83 (2017 Books of the Year).
Description: Putting a century of scholarship on one of the world’s most enduring popular novels into accessible, narrative form, this new approach to a classic of world literature is written for a wide general readership. Packed full of information about the book’s origins and later career on stage and screen, The Novel of the Century brings to life the extraordinary story of how Victor Hugo managed to write his novel of the downtrodden despite a revolution, a coup d’état, and political exile; how he pulled off the deal of the century to get it published; and how he set it on course to be-come the novel that epitomizes the grand sweep of history in the nineteenth century.

Reviewed: JRB Fall 2016 p. 10

Reviewed: Choice Feb 2017 vol. 54 no. 6 (Essential; Top 75 Titles Recommended for Community College Libraries); TLS 7 Apr. 2018 p. 9.

Reviewed: Choice Jul 2017 vol. 54 no. 11 (Essential; Recommended for Community College Library Collections)

Reviewed: LR Nov. 2016 p. 23

Reviewed: CHOICE Sep 2017 vol. 55 no. 1 (highly recommended; recommended for community college libraries)
Note: Best known for The Savage Detectives, winner of the Rómulo Gallegos Prize; the novella By Night in Chile; and the posthumously published novel 2666, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Bolaño died in 2003 just as his reputation was becoming established. After a brief biographical sketch, Gutiérrez-Mouat chronologically contextualizes literary interpretations of Bolaño’s work in terms of his life, cultural background, and political ideals.

Reviewed: CHE 3 Mar. 2017 (new books)

Reviewed: Choice Jan 2017 vol. 54 no. 5 (Essential; Top 75 Titles Recommended for Community College Libraries)

Reviewed: NYT/BR 12 Feb. 2017 p. 26