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Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Rhinoceros and Other Plays by Eugène Ionesco

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Theatre of the absurd Eugène Ionesco (1909-1994) was a Romanian-French playwright. Though born in Romania and fluent in both languages, ...
Monday, March 29, 2021

Walter J. Phillips by Nancy E. Green, Kate Rutherford, and Toni Tomlinson

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Canadian master of the Japanese woodcut Canadian artist Walter J. Phillips was a master of the color woodcut. Using methods and techniqu...
Thursday, March 25, 2021

Chapterhouse: Dune by Frank Herbert

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Wonderful world, boring story Chapterhouse: Dune is the sixth and final volume in Frank Herbert’s series of Dune novels. I first read t...
Monday, March 22, 2021

The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure by Stephen Crane

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One masterpiece in an otherwise mediocre collection The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure, a collection of short stories by Stephen...
Friday, March 19, 2021

Distant Shores: The Odyssey of Rockwell Kent by Constance Martin

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A nutshell biography with emphasis on his paintings In the early twentieth century, Rockwell Kent was the premier book illustrator in Am...
Wednesday, March 17, 2021

The World: Or, Instability by Constantine S. Rafinesque

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A natural scientist’s cosmological poem Constantine Rafinesque Naturalist Constantine Rafinesque (1783-1840) was born in Constantinople t...
Monday, March 15, 2021

The Great Cycle by Tarjei Vesaas

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Coming of age in rural Norway In the 1960s, the University of Wisconsin Press published its Nordic Translation Series, which introduced ...