This Week's Acquisitions
- Benjamin Black, Vengeance (Holt, 2012). Latest in Black's (i.e., John Banville's) series of neo-noirs featuring his pathologist protagonist, Quirke; this time, Quirke tries to figure out why the head of a successful company committed suicide in front of his business partner's son. (Amazon)
- Sebastian Barry, On Canaan's Side (Penguin, 2012). An elderly Irishwoman reflects on her life, both in Ireland and the USA. (Lift Bridge)
- Goce Smilevski, Freud's Sister, trans. Christina E. Kramer (Penguin, 2012). Novel about Adolfina Freud, sent to a concentration camp after her brother managed to emigrate. Coincidentally, there's a similar novel out about Nabokov's brother. (Lift Bridge)
- Jan-Melissa Schramm, Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology (Cambridge, 2006). Important study of how the multiple meanings of "testimony" played out across a variety of discourses. (Amazon)
- Edward Short, Newman and His Contemporaries (Continuum, 2011). Biographical-historical study of Newman's intellectual, religious, and artistic circles. (Amazon [secondhand])