This Week's Acquisitions
- Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk, trans. William Maynard Hutchins and Olive E. Kenny (Anchor, 1991). First volume of Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy, set in Egypt during the 1920s. (Lift Bridge)
- Kay Heath, Aging by the Book: The Emergence of Midlife in Victorian Britain (SUNY, 2009). Literary-cultural study of the development of modern "middle age" during the 19th c. I'm reviewing this for Choice. (Review copy)