John McCurdy

Jul 10, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | John McCurdy

“On August 8, 1774, two dozen British officers and soldiers gathered in New York City to judge the Reverend Robert Newburgh. Newburgh was chaplain to the Eighteenth Regiment of Foot, also known as the Royal Irish, and he faced a general court-martial for ‘Vicious and Immorral Behaviour.’” So begins the prologue of John Gilbert McCurdy’s Vicious and Immoral, in which the author brings to life a little-known episode from the American Revolution.

Apr 10, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Olivia Laing |Daniel Paris |John McCurdy |Dean Jobb

The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise“A garden is a time capsule, as well as a portal out of time,” according to this searching study. Critic Laing (Everybody) examines how historical British gardens reflect the periods in which they were designed and contemporaneous understandings of paradise on Earth.

Mar 7, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Lucy Jones |Daniel Paris |John McCurdy |Dean Jobb

Lucy Jones. Pantheon, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-0-593-31731-0In this probing meditation, journalist Jones (The Nature Seed) reflects on how becoming a mother physically and mentally transforms women. Jones emphasizes the beauty and volatility of maternity, juxtaposing the deep love she feels for her three young children with the crushing exhaustion she endured as their primary caregiver.

Feb 6, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Annette Hess |Daniel Paris |John McCurdy |Dean Jobb

Stephanie Haerdle, trans. from the German by Elisabeth Lauffer. MIT, $27.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-262-04851-4Gender studies researcher Haerdle debuts with a bracing cultural history that traces shifting perspectives on the sexual fluids of women and people with vulvas from antiquity through the present.