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...The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World by Karl Schlögel, translated by Rodney Livingstone (Princeton University Press) In a work of remarkable range and quality, Karl Schlögel explores the everyday...
...The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World by Karl Schlögel (Princeton) In a work of remarkable range and quality, Karl Schlögel explores the everyday life and material culture of the Soviet Union...
...With that now behind me, I’ve been enjoying Karl Schlögel’s The Soviet Century (Princeton)....
...It was both the “world of yesterday” brought vividly to life by novelist Stefan Zweig but whose imperial pomp and circumstance were viciously mocked by contemporaries such as Karl Kraus and Robert Musil...
...The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World by Karl Schlögel, translated by Rodney Livingstone (Princeton) An impressively evocative look at material life in the USSR, from gulags and the planned economy...
...Extreme North: A Cultural History by Bernd Brunner, translated by Jefferson Chase, WW Norton $27.95/£21.99, 256 pages...
...version of the novel is the Penguin Classics from 2019 (32hr 38min), which is read by actor Patrick Gibson but very much worth hunting out is the older version by Naxos Audio (27hr 16min), read by Jim Norton...
...The Premonition: A Pandemic Storyby Michael Lewis, Allen Lane £25/WW Norton & Company $30 Lewis, author of Liar’s Poker and The Big Short, has another deserved bestseller with The Premonition....
...from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World, by Tara Zahra, Norton, RRP£22.99/$28.95 The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century, by...
...Some Rain Must Fall, by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Harvill Secker, RRP£17.99 / Archipelago, RRP$27 (April, as ‘My Struggle: Book Five’) The fifth part of the Norwegian novelist’s autobiographical series arrives...
...Some Rain Must Fall (My Struggle, Book 5), by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Don Bartlett, Harvill Secker, RRP£17.99 In the penultimate volume of his epic work of autobiographical fiction, the Norwegian...
...Economics Rules, by Dani Rodrik, OUP, RRP£16.99/WW Norton, RRP$27.95 After the financial crisis, economics is in the doghouse....
...… Family Life, by Akhil Sharma, Faber, RRP£14.99/WW Norton, RRP$23.95 Sharma’s autobiographical novel took 12 years to write....
...… Karl Ove Knausgaard Author of the ‘My Struggle’ six-book cycle (Vintage) When a book opens like this: “I often have to cut into the brain and it is something I hate doing” – you can’t let it go, you...
...Norton Company. Copyright 2014. All rights reserved. We wrote this book because we got confused....
...Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time, by Ira Katznelson, WW Norton, RRP£22/$29.95 Katznelson’s book offers the freshest perspective on the New Deal for many years....
...Wilson, WW Norton, RRP£18.99 The father of sociobiology sums up 60 distinguished years of research into evolution and social behaviour....
...As a remake of a widely praised BBC television mini-series the project risked disapproval, and the journey to the screen was by all accounts not an easy one: the original stars – Brad Pitt and Edward Norton...
...Fuchsia Dunlop Food writer and author of ‘Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China’ (WW Norton) ………………………………………….....
...Theologian Karl Barth insisted in the 1940s that Judas stood for the Jewish people in the same way as bread signifies food....
...And yet, as the next instalment of the series hits cinemas this weekend, featuring Edward Norton as Dr Bruce Banner, a physicist with serious anger management issues, two colours of green have come to the...
...Norton is the good cop agonising over whether to shop him. Jon Voight is Norton père, a lovable human grizzly and bibulous police veteran, holding the balance of melodramatic contrivances....
...The Execution Premium Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage Robert Kaplan and David Norton Harvard Business Press In the 19th century, Prussian officer Karl von Clausewitz famously remarked...
...Walter and Kitty (Edward Norton and Naomi Watts, who also both served as producers) find themselves in China in 1925, in effect trapped in a chilly and not especially convenient marriage, the frostiness...
...Norton, with his basso profondo voice and big blue baby eyes, here as the sightless Richard, does most to establish the tone. Johnson and Cook are both compelling....
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