Search Results: "Eric Jager"


BOOK REVIEW

BLOOD ROYAL by Eric Jager
NON-FICTION
Released: Feb. 25, 2014

"An impressive combination of mystery, crime story, and social and political history."
Few works of fiction will grab readers' attention as well as Jager's (The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France, 2004) riveting story of a 1407 murder mystery that split the royal family of France. Read full book review >

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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
Released: Sept. 14, 2004

"Sex, savagery, and high-level political maneuvers energize a splendid piece of popular history. (Illustrations throughout)"
An accusation of rape in 1386 occasions this high-suspense account of a duel to the death sanctioned by the French Parlement and King Charles VI—and attended by thousands of eager spectators. Read full book review >

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NON-FICTION
Released: Oct. 18, 1994

"A joy: like getting a letter from a modern-day Thoreau, one who takes sensual pleasure in writing, and has his feet planted firmly on the soil."
The reclamation of an 18th-century New Hampshire farmstead over the past 25 years provides an enchanting ``natural sequel'' to Eighty Acres, the author's popular 1990 memoir of growing up on a Michigan farm. Read full book review >

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WE ALL WORE STARS by Theo Coster
BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
Released: Sept. 27, 2011

"The moving lore around the life of Anne Frank remains inexhaustible and eternal."
A handful of classmates relegated to Amsterdam's Jewish Lyceum during World War II offer poignant, haunting memories of "Annelies." Read full book review >

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BROTHERS AT WAR by Sheila Miyoshi Jager
NON-FICTION
Released: July 29, 2013

"An authoritative record of the divided Korean peninsula to go alongside Victor Cha's The Impossible State (2012)."
A protracted chronicle of the north-south conflict in Korea and the ultimate yearning for peninsular peace. Read full book review >

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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
Released: Aug. 16, 2014

"A cogent look at the United States from someone who's seen it as an outsider and as an insider."
In his debut, a Dutch immigrant reflects on his decision to permanently relocate his family to the United States and the future of the country he now calls home. Read full book review >

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THE LAST SUMMER OF REASON by Tahar Djaout
FICTION & LITERATURE
Released: Oct. 1, 2001

"Though these and other bleak reflections on fundamentalist society remain as legacy, the stilling of Djaout's humanist voice is a loss to the larger literary world as much as to his embattled homeland."
Prize-winning novelist and poet Djaout was assassinated in 1993 by Islamic fundamentalists in his native Algeria, leaving this very short novel, a painful rumination on the death of the spirit in a repressive society, among his papers. Read full book review >

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I’ve always found it difficult to answer the what’s-your-favorite-color question, as the answer depends entirely on my mood. (I like deep blues for more contemplative times, but I need sunny yellow to help wake me in the mornings.)

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BOOK REVIEW

THE WATCHERS by Tahar Djaout
FICTION & LITERATURE
Released: Oct. 1, 2002

"No one will miss the message here, but Djaout has also given us a story as steeped in the beauty of North Africa as in the darkness threatening those who call it home."
The first English translation of this 1991 winner of the French Prix Mediterranée, whose author was assassinated in 1993 by Islamic extremists in Algeria, follows publication of Djaout's remarkable The Last Summer of Reason (2001) and further shows the loss literature has sustained. Read full book review >

BOOK REVIEW

GADDAFI'S HAREM by Annick Cojean
BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
Released: Sept. 3, 2013

"An important contribution to the understanding of Gadhafi's regime and the social and political challenges that confront Libya now."
Acclaimed Le Monde journalist Cojean (Marc Riboud: 50 Years of Photography, 2004, etc.) investigates Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's extensive system of sexual predation, collecting testimony from many of his victims. Read full book review >

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WOMEN OF ALGIERS IN THEIR APARTMENT by Assia Djebar
FICTION & LITERATURE
Released: Nov. 1, 1992

"As much a critique as a picture of a society, Djebar's debut- -plus its informative afterword—is an elegant and evocative introduction to a too little-known world."
Algerian-born writer and filmmaker Djebar, now living in France, makes her American debut with a collection offering memorable portraits of Arabic women in a time of change. Read full book review >

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NON-FICTION
Released: Nov. 28, 2005

"Reading or attempting to read this ponderous and pretentious treatise will not help the ambivalent woman come to a decision about cosmetic surgery, but it may well induce some beauty sleep."
From a French cosmetic surgeon comes word that true beauty is found not in facial perfection but in a certain je ne sais quoi that he labels seductiveness. Read full book review >
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