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3 weeks ago | 
startribune.com | Laurent Binet |Sam Taylor |Cory Oldweiler
One reason the mystery genre has remained popular is its infinite adaptability. Someone can get whacked anywhere and once you've got a corpse, the game's afoot! French writer Laurent Binet's "Perspective(s)," newly available in a brisk and breezy English translation by Sam Taylor, is a delightfully inventive whodunit , set in Florence, Italy, smack in the middle of the Renaissance, and populated with the era's most famous and infamous personalities.
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3 weeks ago | 
startribune.com | Laurent Binet |Sam Taylor |Cory Oldweiler
One reason the mystery genre has remained popular is its infinite adaptability. Someone can get whacked anywhere and once you've got a corpse, the game's afoot! French writer Laurent Binet's "Perspective(s)," newly available in a brisk and breezy English translation by Sam Taylor, is a delightfully inventive whodunit , set in Florence, Italy, smack in the middle of the Renaissance, and populated with the era's most famous and infamous personalities.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
grenadastar.com | Sam Taylor
By SAM TAYLORFri,08/16/24-6:45PM, 35 Reads 652 StatewideBelow is an opinion column by Sam Taylor:Sam Taylor writes that the time has come for trustees to roll up their sleeves and get to work on making the difficult decisions needed to ensure PERS remains solvent.
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May 22, 2024 | 
thebookseller.com | Sam Taylor
Just as we judge books by their covers, so we judge shops by their bags. Plastic: environmental vandals who should burn in the oil fires of a Cormac McCarthy-penned post-apocalyptic hellscape. Hemp: crystal-touting, tie-dye wearing hippies who make Kerouac look square, man. Paper: well, it all depends on the age-old equation of (Tensile Strength x Aesthetic Uplift) + Comfort In Hand, doesn’t it? Without touting my origami trumpet too loudly, our paper bags are excellent.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
dimensiaktual.com | A.H. Mostofa Zaman |Sam Taylor |Hannah McDonald
He’s married to a woman 23 years his senior and has seen his career go from strength to strength, with three huge film appearances this year alone. Now British actor Aaron Taylor Johnson, 33, is understood to have been formally offered the chance to play the next James Bond after months of speculation about the role.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
newyorkfolk.com | James White |Sam Taylor |Hannah McDonald
He’s married to a woman 23 years his senior and has seen his career go from strength to strength, with three huge film appearances this year alone. Now British actor Aaron Taylor Johnson, 33, is understood to have been formally offered the chance to play the next James Bond after months of speculation about the role.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
cyclingeurope.org | Sam Taylor
By Sam TaylorEmbarking on a cycling holiday is an immersive way to discover new destinations, especially in European countries that offer warm autumn temperatures, scenic routes, and cultural landmarks. Here’s a closer look at four countries that provide intriguing cycling experiences. Embarking on a cycling holiday is an immersive way to discover new destinations, especially in European countries that offer warm autumn temperatures, scenic routes, and cultural landmarks.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | David Diop |Sam Taylor |James McBride
A mesmerizing tale. In French colonial Senegal, a young, soon-to-be-eminent French botanist becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman sold into slavery who escaped to freedom. Michel Adanson journeyed to Senegal to catalog new fauna and flora for “Universal Orb,” his magnum opus. A half-century later, following his death in 1806, his daughter, Aglaé, discovers his hidden notebooks, which document his intense experiences on and around the island of Gorée.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
bookshop.org | David Diop |Sam Taylor
(Author) (Translator) FORMAT Hardcover$27.00$25.11(English) Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller "Stunningly realized . . . Exquisite . . .
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Sep 14, 2023 | 
startribune.com | David Diop |Sam Taylor
On his deathbed, French botanist Michel Adanson repeats the word "Maram" over and over to his daughter Aglaé. The Wolof woman to whom the name belongs is a larger-than-life character in French-Senegalese writer David Diop's novel "Beyond the Door of No Return," inspired by Adanson's life. She calls to mind another of Diop's outsized creations: the deranged Senegalese soldier in his slim, gory first novel, "At Night All Blood Is Black," which won the International Booker Prize.
