This Week's Acquisitions
- Emma Lazarus, Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings, ed. Gregory Eiselein (Broadview, 2002). Anthology devoted to the famous nineteenth-century American Jewish poet and critic, author of this prominently located poem. More on Lazarus at the Jewish Women's Archive.
- John Banville, Mefisto (Godine, 1999). Contemporary take on the Faust legend. (Not to be confused with Klaus Mann's fine Mephisto.)
- Madison Smartt Bell, Doctor Sleep (Grove, 2003). Insomniac hypnotherapist as detective.
- Penelope Lively, City of the Mind(Grove, 2003). An architect deals with life and London.
- Rick Moody, Demonology (Faber & Faber, 2000). Short stories.
- Junichiro Tanizaki, The Makioka Sisters (Everyman, 1993). Aristocratic Japanese family desperately tries to marry off one of four sisters.
- Wendy S. Jones, Consensual Fictions: Women, Liberalism, and the Novel (Toronto, 2005). Political theory, marriage, and the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel. (I'm reviewing it for Choice.)