Category: Modern and Contemporary
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Hart, Sarah, Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
Sarah Hart, Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature (New York: Flatiron Books, 2023) pp. 290. £16.99 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-250-85088-1 Sarah Hart has written a highly accessible and entertaining reflection on the interactions between mathematics and literature. Once Upon a Prime is intended for a general reader with no assumed academic…
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Grech, Marija, Spectrality and Survivance: Living the Anthropocene
Marija Grech, Spectrality and Survivance: Living the Anthropocene (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2022) 156 pp. $120 Hb. $35 Pb. ISBN: 9781786614162 The definition of the Anthropocene as causing the lasting transformation of the Earth presents us with an inherent contradiction. Proponents of viewing the Anthropocene as our current geological epoch argue that through our…
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Brown, Andy, The Tree Climbing Cure: Finding Wellbeing in Trees in European and North American Literature and Art
Andy Brown, The Tree Climbing Cure: Finding Wellbeing in Trees in European and North American Literature and Art (Environmental Cultures Series) (London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2023) 225 pp. £65.00 Hb. £20.99 Pb. £15.99 Ebook. ISBN: 9781350327283 Being around trees is good for our mental health and wellbeing. Although this has long been known intuitively,…
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Zaretsky, Robert, Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague
Robert Zaretsky, Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022) 208 pp. $22.50 Cloth. ISBS: 9780226803494 Faced with lockdowns and isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic, Robert Zaretsky did what many people – especially those of us who work in the humanities – do in times…
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Cooper, Fred and Luna Dolezal and Arthur Rose, COVID-19 and Shame: Political Emotions and Public Health in the UK
Fred Cooper, Luna Dolezal, and Arthur Rose, COVID-19 and Shame: Political Emotions and Public Health in the UK (London: Bloomsbury, 2023) 160 pp. £40.50 Hb. £13.49 Pb. ISBN: 9781350283404 Finding its origins in the AHRC-funded research project, Scenes of Shame and Stigma in COVID-19, COVID-19 and Shame offers a concise and timely study of the…
