Category: Reviews

Smart and Insightful Among Other Things

Tilar J. Mazzeo’s Plagiarism and Literary Property in the Romantic Period is "smart and insightful," says book critic Charles McGrath in his recent New York Times piece.

A Wonderful Mine

This month’s Library Journal calls Tropic of Venice by scholar and novelist Margaret Doody "a wonderful mine of information for anyone with an interest in Venice, its history and customs,… READ MORE

Lemay Among “The Year’s Best”

The New York Sun listed J.A. Leo Lemay’s The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Printer and Publisher, 1730-1747 as one of the best books of 2006. Reviewer Carl Rollyson says: Mr…. READ MORE

Child Soldiers is “groundbreaking”

PsycCRITIQUES, the APA Review of Books, recently examined Child Soldiers in Africa by Alcinda Honwana. The reviewers praised Honwana for contributing to social research on Lusophone African nations, such as… READ MORE

Recchiuti Recommended on Open University

In a recent post on Open University, the New Republic Online’s academic blog, historian and blogger Casey N. Blake recommended John Louis Recchiuti’s new book, Civic Engagement: Social Science and… READ MORE

CLIO Reviews Colonizing Nature

A review of Colonizing Nature: The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 1760-1820 appears in CLIO, a Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History, Volume 35:3. Reviewer Janet… READ MORE

Eichmann’s Reappearance

A recent Human Rights & Human Welfare review of Harry Mulisch’s Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichman: An Eyewitness Account, translated by Robert Malcom, compares Mulisch’s portrait of… READ MORE