This Week's Acquisitions
- China Mieville, Embassytown (Ballantine, 2011). Intergalactic politics meets linguistics problem on far-off planet. (BOMC)
- Mary Doria Russell, Doc (Random House, 2011). Revisionist Western devoted to Doc Holliday. (Lift Bridge)
- Heather Walton, ed., Literature and Theology: New Interdisciplinary Spaces (Ashgate, 2011). Collection of theoretical essays on the study of literature & religion. (Review copy)
- Louis N. Beaudry, Spiritual Struggles of a Roman Catholic: An Autobiographical Sketch (William Briggs, 1883). Or, more properly, spiritual strugges of a Roman Catholic on his way to converting to Protestantism. One of Beaudry's relatives has some biographical data here. (eBay)