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Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana’s Pretty Boy Floyd, Michael Wallis’s Pretty Boy, and Jeffery S. King’s The Life and Death of Pretty Boy Floyd

Posted on 3rd November 2023 by Diverse Voices

Craig Clarke wrote this review. “There’s no excuse for dressing like trash in this line of work.” – Charles Arthur Floyd in McMurtry and Ossana’s Pretty Boy Floyd When did criminals become our national heroes? Names like Bonnie and Clyde, … Continue reading →

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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s The Age of Homespun

Posted on 4th October 2023 by Donna Bird

Subtitled “Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth,” The Age of Homespun is a collection of meticulously detailed historical yarns spun around a number of household artifacts created and initially used in New England during the late … Continue reading →

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Chester Brown’s Louis Riel: A Comic Strip Biography

Posted on 11th September 2023 by David Kidney

In the USA, history has been used as a basis for all sorts of entertainment. Novels, films and television shows have long been built out of the legends of American history. And so American history might have been distorted in … Continue reading →

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BBC’s I, Claudius; and The Epic That Never Was

Posted on 29th July 2023 by Diverse Voices

Craig Clarke wrote this review. Based on two novels by Robert Graves, the BBC’s I, Claudius was a groundbreaking miniseries, and is still today considered by some to be the totem by which all other miniseries are measured. It stars … Continue reading →

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Alan Moore & José Villarrubia’s The Mirror of Love

Posted on 6th August 2022 by Aptil Gutierrez

We gasped upon Devonian beaches, huddled under Neolithic stars. Spat blood through powdered teeth, staining each other as we kissed. Always we loved. How could we otherwise, when you are so like me, my sweet, but in a different guise. … Continue reading →

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Larry Gonick’s The Cartoon History of the Modern World, Part I

Posted on 7th July 2022 by Gary Whitehouse

Harvard mathematician Larry Gonick continues his wildly successful Cartoon History of the Universe series with this book, an irreverent cartoon look at world history “From Columbus to the U.S. Constitution.” Anyone who loves history, comics or both should have this … Continue reading →

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Lauren Groff’s Matrix

Posted on 24th May 2022 by Gary Whitehouse

Lauren Groff continues to make a name for herself as an author of unusual and engrossing fiction. This time she brings us a fast-paced tale of an unconventional nun in Medieval England, only a few years after the island emerged … Continue reading →

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Madeleine Pelner Cosman’s Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Cookery and Ceremony

Posted on 27th April 2022 by Diverse Voices

Michelle Erica Green wrote this review. Partly a history of medieval cooking, partly an illustrated guide to the harvesting and processing of food and partly a recipe book, Fabulous Feasts offers – well, to borrow an anachronism, a smorgasbord of … Continue reading →

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Hugh Kennedy’s When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World, and Justin Marozzi’s Tamerlane

Posted on 11th April 2022 by Donna Bird

Da Capo Press has been a member of the Perseus Book Group since 1999. World history is one of its specialty lines and probably the category in which I would place both of these titles. At least in my experience … Continue reading →

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Andrew Dalby’s Dangerous Tastes: The Story of Spices

Posted on 13th January 2022 by Diverse Voices

Faith J. Cormier wrote this review. Heaven forbid I should ever judge a book by its title, but this one certainly can be. In Dangerous Tastes: The Story of Spices, Andrew Dalby does exactly what the title says he is … Continue reading →

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