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Very few attorneys get the opportunity to argue a case before the United States Supreme Court. That privilege is usually reserved for veteran SCOTUS advocates, many of whom started their [...]

SPINOZA, LIFE AND LEGACY by Jonathan I. Israel OXFORD UNIVERSITY, 1,344 pages, $49.99 CURSED BE HE by day and cursed be he by night; cursed be he when he lies [...]

THE BEST EFFECT: THEOEOGY AND THE ORIGINS OF CONSEQUENTIALISM by Ryan Darr UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, 320 PAGES, $35 When I was a teenager, it occurred to me that it would [...]

JOURNEY BACK AGAIN: REASONS TO VISIT MIDDLE-EARTH. Edited by Diana Pavlac Glyer. Altadena: Mythopoeic Press, 2022. 163 pp. 9781887726290. $11.95 pbk. In her foreword to this relatively slender volume, Janet [...]

J.R.R. TOLKIEN'S THE HOBBIT: REALIZING HISTORY THROUGH FANTASY. Robert T. Tally Jr. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 101 pp. $22.99 (pbk). "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit"; these [...]

HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF FANTASY LITERATURE: SECOND EDITION, Allen Stroud. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2023. xxxiv, 543 pp. Hardcover 9781538166062, $200. Epub 9781538166079 $190. Also Kindle. In 2004, the Scarecrow [...]

This article discusses the strengths and weaknesses of James Como's reflective analysis of C.S. Lewis's Perelandra. Additional Keywords Perelandra; Space Trilogy, MYSTICAL PERELANDRA: MY LIFELONG READING OF C.S. LEWIS & HIS FAVORITE BOOK. James Como. Hamden CT: Winged Lion Press, 2022. 163 p. ISBN 9781935688297. $16.99 (paperback). The subtitle of this [...]

TOLKIEN IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: THE MEANING OF MIDDLE-EARTH TODAY. Nick Groom, Pegasus, 2023. 480 p. ISBN 13 9781639365036. $32.00. Nick groom's Tolkien in the Twenty-First Century. The Meaning of [...]

THE MEDIEVAL WORLDS OF NEIL GAIMAN: FROM BEOWULF TO SLEEPING BEAUTY. Shiloh Carroll. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2023. 214p. 978-1-60938-913-0. $27.50 (paperback). ISBN 978-1-60938-914-7. $27.50 (ebook). Previous [...]

Book Review: In the second edition of Tarot and Other Meditation Decks: History Theory, Aesthetics, Typology author Emily E. Auger examines Tarot's relationship to art movements, literature, and film. This expansion on the first edition adds a more in-depth appendix, additional research to enhance the existing sections, and a new section focusing on the influence of the shadow on both Tarot itself and the other mediums Tarot influences. Additional Keywords tarot; meditation decks; book review, TAROT AND OTHER MEDITATION DECKS: HISTORY, THEORY, AESTHETICS, TYPOLOGY. Second Edition. Emily E. Auger. Jefferson NC: McFarland, 2023. 368 p. ISBN 9781476686790. $39.95. Emily E. Auger is a retired art [...]

J.R.R. TOLKIEN IN CENTRAL EUROPE: CONTEXT, DIRECTIONS, AND THE LEGACY. Edited by Janka Kascakova and David Levente Palatinus; Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction. New York & London: Routledge, 2024. 188 [...]

URSULA K. LE GUIN'S "A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA": A CRITICAL COMPANION. Timothy S. Miller. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 98 p. 978-3-031-24639-5. $49.99. URSULA Le Guin's Earthsea. John Plotz. Oxford: [...]

THE ARCHETYPE OF THE DYING AND RISING GOD IN WORLD MYTHOLOGY. Paul R. Rovang. Lanham MD: Lexington Books, 2023. 224p. 9781666917086. $100. Additional Keywords archetype Long considered an important concept [...]

PURSUING AN EARTHY SPIRITUALITY: C.S. LEWIS AND INCARNATIONAL FAITH. Gary S. Selby. IVP Academic, 2019. 212 p. ISBN 9780830852369. $24.00. In letters to Malcolm (1964), C.S. Lewis writes that in [...]

THE INKLINGS, THE VICTORIANS, AND THE MODERNS: RECONCILING TRADITION IN THE MODERN AGE. Christopher Butynskyi. Lanham, Maryland: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2020. 206 p. ISBN: 9781683932277. $38.00. Additional Keywords Inklings; [...]

BOOK REVIEW of Monaville, Pedro. 2022. Students of the World: Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 368 pp. $107.95 (cloth), $29.95 (paper). Pedro Monaville's [...]

Six Pioneer Accounts of Life on the Old North-West American Frontier, 1790-1850: A Critical Reading. By Franklin E. Court. (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022. Pp. 295, illustrations, portrait. [...]

* Following Their Leaders: Political Preferences and Public Policy By Randall G. Holcombe New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xv + 200. $34.99 paperback. Some scholars criticize the Public [...]

* Better Money: Gold, Fiat, or Bitcoin? By Lawrence H. White New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xi, 236. $29.95 paperback. Larry White has written another fine book on [...]

* Out of the Melting Pot, into the Fire: Multiculturalism in the World's Past and America's Future By Jens Heycke New York: Encounter Books, 2023. Pp. xi, 271. $30.99 paperback. [...]

The Language of Languages: Reflections on Translation BY NGUGI WA THIONG'O Seagull Books, 2023. vi + 100 pp. ISBN 9781803090719 cloth. When celebrated Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o wrote Matigari [...]

Inside the Philippine Revolution: The New People 's Army and Its Struggle for Power. By William Chapman. (1987) Reprint, Bloomsbury, 2021. 288 pp. Two detailed journalistic accounts of the history [...]

Whose Islam? The Western University and Modern Islamic Thought in Indonesia. By Megan Brankley Abbas. California: Stanford University Press, 2021. 280 pp. This detailed and carefully nuanced book provides an [...]

HEGEL: THE PHILOSOPHER OF FREEDOM by Klaus Vieweg STANFORD UNIVERSITY, 488 PAGES, #40 KLAUS VIEWEG'S eight-hundred-page biography of Hegel made something of a sensation when the German original appeared in [...]

MILTON FRIEDMAN: THE LAST CONSERVATIVE by Jennifer Burns FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX, 592 PAGES, $35 ANYONE WHO LIVED through the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 will remember the [...]

HOMER AND HIS ILIAD by Robin Lane Fox BASIC BOOKS, 464 PAGES, $32.50 THE ILIAD by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson W. W. NORTON, 848 PAGES, $39-95 The Iliad is [...]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Requiem. Completed and edited by Michael Ostrzyga. Score. Kassel, Barenreiter, 2022. [Preface, p. IV-XV; score, p. 1-226; crit. report, p. 227-33. ISMN 979-0-006-56919-9. $94.95.] Nearly 230 years […]

Giuseppe Tartini. L'arte dell'arco. Edited by Matteo Cossu. (Giuseppe Tartini--Edizionenazionale delle opere musicali. Serie VI, Opere didattiche, v. 1) Kassel: Barenreiter, 2022. [1 score (xxii, 56 p.) ISMN: 979-0006-569564. $126.] […]

Teaching Music History with Cases: A Teacher's Guide. By Sara Haefeli. (Modern Musicology and the College Classroom.) New York: Routledge, 2022. [116 p. ISBN 9780367672539 (hardcover), $47.96; ISBN 9781003130482, $19.96).] […]

Understanding the Old Hispanic Office: Texts, Melodies and Devotion in Early Medieval Iberia. By Emma Hornby, Kati Ihnat, Rebecca Maloy, and Raquel Rojo Carrillo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. [xxxii, […]

Vinyl Ventures: My Fifty Years at Rounder Records. By Bill Nowlin. Bristol, CT: Equinox Publishing, 2021. [xii, 320 p. ISBN 9781800500068 (paperback), $29.95.] Illustrations, endnotes, indexes. "America's most prominent independent [...]

Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt. By Andrew Simon. (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures.) Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022. [xiii, 279 […]

Musical Migration and Imperial New York: Early Cold War Scenes. By Brigid Cohen. (New Material Histories of Music.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. [379 p. ISBN 9780226818016 (hardcover), $55; [...]

Leonardo Balada: A Transatlantic Gaze. By Juan Francisco de Dios. Translated by Peter Bush. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2020. [325 p. ISBN 9780887486630 (paperback), $22.95.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, [...]

Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins. By Aidan Levy. New York: Hachette Books, 2022. [xii, 772 p. ISBN 9780306902796 (hardcover), $35; ISBN 9780306902802 (paperback), $22.99; ISBN 9780306902826 [...]

The Dylan Tapes: Friends, Players, and Lovers Talking Early Bob Dylan. By Anthony Scaduto. Edited by Stephanie Trudeau. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. [xi, 407 p., ISBN 9781517908157 (hardcover), [...]

Erard: L'empire de la harpe = Erard: Empire of the Harp. By Robert Adelson. French translation by Jacqueline Letzter. Mouzeil: Camac Harps, 2022. [238 p., ISBN 9782958396701 (paperback), 42.65 [euro].] [...]

Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical. By Laurie Winer. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023. [x, 356 p. ISBN 9780300223798 (hardcover), $32.50; ISBN 9780300269123 (ebook), price [...]

Karl Straube (1873-1950): Germany's Master Organist in Turbulent Times. By Christopher Anderson. (Eastman Studies in Music, 182.) Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2022. [x, 558 p. ISBN 9781648250385 (hardcover), [...]

Bach against Modernity. By Michael Marissen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. [xvi, 184 p. ISBN 9780197669495 (hardcover), $34.95; ISBN 9780197669525 (ebook), price varies.] Illustrations, bibliography, index. Bach in the [...]

ETHICS OF OUR FIGHTERS: A JEWISH VIEW ON WAR AND MORALITY by Shlomo M. Brody MAGGID BOOKS, 412 PAGES, $32.95 IN READING THIS intelligent, useful, and timely book, I was [...]

Review Essay: In Hindsight: Half a Century of Research Discoveries in Canadian History. A series of 21 podcasts featuring Donald Smith and produced by the Ontario Historical Society If you [...]

John Zilcosky's The Language of Trauma comprehensively links such authors as E.T.A. Hoffman, Sigmund Freud, and Franz Kafka, revealing that their familiar notions of the uncanny are not simply mystifying universal concepts, but rather deeply rooted in the entanglements of overlapping historical discourses grounded in the trauma of modernity itself. Keywords: illness / insurance / language / modernism / trauma / uncanny / war, Zilcosky, John. The Language of Trauma: War and Technology in Hoffman, Freud, and Kafka. U of Toronto P, 2021. 192 pp. $70.00 hardcover; $29.95 paper; $29.95 ebook. 'A imee Pozorski: [...]