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428 AD

07-Oct-09

Traina, Giusto. 428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire. Princeton, 2009. 224p. tr. from Italian by Allan Cameron Peter Brown, the noted biographer of Augustine, hails Giusto Traina’s one-year perspective of the waning Roman world as “a new Archimedes point from which to move the great mass of the history [...]

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2008 in Books

12-Jan-09

Jack Spicer, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry (Wesleyan) John Darnielle, Master of Reality (Continuum) Tzachi Zamir, Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama (Princeton) Samuel Weber, Benjamin’s -abilities (Harvard) Michael Heller, Gridlock Economy (Basic) “The Inhabitant,” The Great Romance (Bison) Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals & Notebooks 1947 -1963 (FSG) Tim Winton, [...]

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