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2 weeks ago | 
newcriterion.com | Keith Windschuttle |Roger Kimball |Renee Winegarten |Brenda Wineapple
Poetry: Daniel Mendelsohn in conversation with Ayad Akhtar: Homer’s The Odyssey, at the 92nd Street Y (April 10): Threads from Homer’s Odyssey are “so tightly woven into the fabric of our literature and art, music and drama,” notes the classicist Daniel Mendelsohn, that “it’s with a start that we recall someone had to invent them.” It’s easy to forget that each generation has to retranslate the poem, too, if those threads are to be discerned (at least until Ancient Greek makes its way into...
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2 weeks ago | 
newcriterion.com | Keith Windschuttle |Harry Cluff |Roger Kimball |Renee Winegarten |Brenda Wineapple
When he was asked how Paul Cézanne influenced his work, Picasso declared: “He is the father of us all, a sort of God of painting.” This admiration was shared by Picasso’s coeval Cubist-in-arms, Georges Braque, and by the founding father of Fauvism, Henri Matisse, as well as by many other artists who came to prominence after Cézanne’s death in 1906. Cézanne’s contemporaries likewise appreciated his massive talent.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
practicesource.com | Brenda Wineapple |Emily Nussbaum |Gary Marcus |Julia Sonnevend
Looking for the perfect holiday gift for the book lovers in your life? Let our talented law librarian, Kerri-Ann Rowe, guide your shopping with her thoughtful recommendations that will appeal to all kinds of readers. From exploring pivotal legal trials and the dawn of reality television to understanding AI’s impact and climate change, plus a beautiful celebration of North Carolina art, there’s a recent release here they’ll love unwrapping. By: Brenda WineappleFor the legal history buff.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
law.unc.edu | Brenda Wineapple |Emily Nussbaum |Gary Marcus |Julia Sonnevend
Looking for the perfect holiday gift for the book lovers in your life? Let our talented law librarian, Kerri-Ann Rowe, guide your shopping with her thoughtful recommendations that will appeal to all kinds of readers. From exploring pivotal legal trials and the dawn of reality television to understanding AI’s impact and climate change, plus a beautiful celebration of North Carolina art, there’s a recent release here they’ll love unwrapping. By: Brenda WineappleFor the legal history buff.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
johnbatchelor.substack.com | Brenda Wineapple |John Batchelor
Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation—a new story and book by Brenda Wineapple about the Scopes Trial of 1925. It is dramatic and sensationally important for the understanding of the culture in the 1920s. One hundred years, it is still debatable. I take you to Robinson's Drugstore. It is early May, 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
libraryjournal.com | Brenda Wineapple
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Aug. 2024.
12:50 hrs.
ISBN 9780593912577. $95.
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Historian Wineapple (
The Impeachers) examines the history of the infamous 1925 Scopes trial, taking listeners from considerations of the social and political climate of the time through the preparation for the trial and the verdict.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Abi Maxwell |Brenda Wineapple |Mariano Sigman |Aaron Robertson
Abi Maxwell. Knopf, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-593-53584-4 “I’d felt detached from my body as far back as I could remember,” writes novelist Maxwell (The Lake People) in the opening paragraphs of this captivating family memoir. From there, she unspools the story of her trans daughter, Greta, who was born after Maxwell and her husband settled down in Gilford, the conservative New Hampshire lake town where Maxwell grew up. At age six, Greta began asking to wear pink sneakers and dresses.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Brenda Wineapple |Mariano Sigman |Aaron Robertson |Andrea Currie
Comforting Myths: Concerning the Political in Art In this trenchant treatise, Lebanese American novelist Alameddine (The Wrong End of the Telescope) pushes back against the argument that “art should be separate from politics.” He contends that all art is political and that writing only appears apolitical if it “reinforces the dominant society’s values.” For instance, Alameddine argues that John Updike’s decision to write about “stultifying suburbia” at the height of the Vietnam War should be...
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Albert Lee |Don Lemon |Brenda Wineapple |Mariano Sigman
Don Lemon. Little, Brown, $30 (224p) ISBN 978-0-316-56769-5Lemon’s intriguing if unfocused latest (after This Is the Fire) finds the former CNN anchor linking his relationship to Christianity with his recent professional struggles. He opens with an account of his religious upbringing in Louisiana, which offered both a sense of community and the indignity of hearing homosexuality regularly degraded as he struggled with being in the closet.
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Aug 24, 2024 | 
bookreporter.com | Brenda Wineapple
In July 2023, I was able to remove an item from my life bucket list. Traveling through the South after attending a wedding and a stop in Chattanooga, Tennessee, I mad a short side trip to Dayton, where the trial of John Scopes took place in 1925. History has named it “The Scopes Monkey Trial,” but the actual charge was teaching evolution in a public school, which was in violation of the Butler Act, a law passed by the Tennessee legislature.
