This Week's Acquisitions
- Patrick McGrath, Blood and Water and Other Tales (Poseidon, 1988). Gothic short fiction.
- Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (HarperCollins, 2007). Alternative history-cum-detective novel, featuring Jews holed up in...Alaska?
- Jim Crace, The Pesthouse (Talese, 2007). Another entry in the current round of apocalyptic novels.
- Caryl Phillips, Dancing in the Dark (Vintage, 2006). Historical novel about Bert Williams.
- Roberto Bolano, The Savage Detectives: A Novel (FSG, 2007). Founders of a Mexican literary movement take a world tour...
- William Chapman, Notable Women of the Reformation: Their Life and Times (Swan Sonnenschein, 1887). Collection of exemplary biographies.
- Thomas Darcy M'Gee, A History of the Attempts to Establish the Protestant Reformation in Ireland and the Successful Resistance of That People (Patrick Donahoe, 1853). Catholic perspective, obviously. For M'Gee, see From Ireland.
- Christian Thomasius, Essays on Church, State, and Politics (Liberty Fund, 2007). Latest entry in the Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics series. There's a brief discussion of Thomasius at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.