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)