This Week's Acquisitions
- James Robertson, And the Land Lay Still (Hamish Hamilton, 2010). A photography exhibit turns into a meditation on the nature of modern Scotland. (Amazon [secondhand])
- ---, The Professor of Truth (Hamish Hamilton, 2013). A professor turns anew to one of his obsessions: the bombing of Pan Am 103, in which his wife and child died. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Oscar Hijuelos, Twain and Stanley Enter Paradise (Grand Central, 2015). Hijuelos' final novel, based on the real-life friendship between Mark Twain and H. M. Stanley (of "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" fame). (Lift Bridge)
- Jefferson J. A. Gatrall, The Real and the Sacred: Picturing Jesus in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Michigan, 2015). Analyzes both historical novels about Jesus and novels in which Jesus appears in the modern day, ending with a chapter on Jesus on screen. (Amazon)
- Richa Dwor, Jewish Feeling: Difference and Affect in Nineteenth-Century Jewish Women's Writing (Bloomsbury, 2015). Drawing on the role of midrash, uses Grace Aguilar, George Eliot, and Amy Levy to argue that we can identify a "distinctly Jewish" mode of feeling. I'm reviewing this. (Review copy)