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- What’s New for the 26th of July:
- A Kinrowan Estate story: chicken pot pieces
- What’s New for the 19th of July: Charles de Lint’s Ottawa novels with a quote from Drink Down the Moon, Gary’s review of Nordic fiddle music, It’s Michele Walther and Irina Behrendt playing Aaron Copland’s ‘Hoe Down’ from his Rodeo album
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Odd Things
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Library and Its Librarian
- What’s New for the Fifth of July: Remembering Jane Yolen; some new Americana and jazz music; Fishing Blues
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: Recursive Loops
- What’s New for June 21: Jennifer Stevenson’s ‘Solstice’
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Turkish Coffee
- What’s New for the 7th of June: Foxes in literature, live Balkan music, comforting jazz, Americana jazz, and wonderfully weird fusion jazz; and John Fogerty live
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bloodied Kings
- What’s New for the 24th of May: Gary’s Review of Elizabeth Bear’s White Space novels, iain’s review of the Lonely Signal Burns novellas by her, she reading her own story, ‘The Chains That You Refuse’, and I see Gary has some tasty music reviews fir us as well
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Greensward
- What’s New for the 10th of May: books reviewed by Jennifer Stevenson, music by Teddy Thompson, Americana music from all over, and some live music from John Fogerty
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Walk
- What’s New for the 26th of April: the nature of Stories; some new and newish SF, plus new world, jazz, folk and Americana music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Spring Day
- What’s New for the 12th of April: Some new and recent SF; new Americana, Norwegian folk rock and jazz; and thoughts on War For The Oaks
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Unified Theory of Libraries (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 29th of March: Beer and spirits, in song and text, some new Scandinavian fiddle music and jazz flute music, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Ghostly Librarian
- What’s New for the 15th of March: some DeLint stories for early spring; lots of polskas, Serbian folk rock, progressive jazz, and Nordic music from the archives
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Hedge Witches
- What’s New for the 1st of March: Emma Bull’s War for The Oaks, Rosanne Cash’s ‘Runaway Train’, Johnny Cash at San Quentin, plus new Americana and jazz music
- A Kinrorwan Estate story: Cranachanh
- What’s New for the 15th of February: Some Seanan McGuire fantasy, Alison Bechdel’s latest, Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin; Nordic sounds, old time, Americana and Tex-Mex music
- What’s New for the 1st of February: Kage Baker retrospective; new Americana, Buddhist chants and Finnish songs, new and reissued jazz, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Fireplaces in Kinrowan Hall
- What’s New for the 18th of January: World music and fiction by Amal El-Mohtar
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bridges and Paths plus a Troll
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Peter Faulkner and Peter Preston eds.: William Morris: Centenary Essays
Don’t ask me how to discuss a book of essays on the life and work of a figure who was surely among the last Renaissance men. William Morris was a poet and polemicist, artist and designer, politician and businessman, and … Continue reading
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W. R. J. Barron, editor: The Arthur of the English: The Arthurian Legend and Medieval English Life and Literature
Originally published in 1999, The Arthur of the English is the second volume in a series of scholarly anthologies centered on the Arthurian literature of the Middle Ages. The series as a whole is a cooperative effort of the University … Continue reading
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Tagged criticism, English history, myth, nonfiction
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Audrey L. Becker and Kristin Noone’s Welsh Mythology and Folklore in Popular Culture
Welsh Mythology and Folklore in Popular Culture, edited by Audrey L. Becker and Kristin Noone, is, as one might expect, a scholarly anthology focusing on the influence and outright appropriation of Welsh mythology and legends in popular culture through the … Continue reading
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Margaret Atwood’s In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination
Margaret Atwood needs no introduction to readers of Green Man Review. Suffice to say she is one of the best known and highly respected North American writers of … hmm, well, what is it that she writes? Actually, that is … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, nonfiction, science fiction
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Desmond Stewart’s Great Cairo: Mother of the World
Three of the most memorable literary journeys I’ve made in 2008-09 have brought me to the ancient and venerable city of Cairo, Egypt. In Naguib Mahfouz’s The Cairo Trilogy (English translation easily available in several editions, both as a single … Continue reading
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Tagged history, nonfiction
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Laurence Hyde’s Southern Cross
Southern Cross is a novel with no words. Not a graphic novel, as we’ve come to understand them, but a series of 118 wood engravings that when “read” together in sequence tells a story of the atomic bomb tests by … Continue reading
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Jessica Warner’s Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason
The consumption of alcoholic beverages is nearly as old as civilization itself. Alcohol has played a major role in the history and folklore of every society. Jessica Warner makes a persuasive case in Craze that the so-called gin craze in … Continue reading
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Andrew F. Smith’s The Tomato in America
The tomato is one of the most popular “vegetables” in America, where thousands of tons of them are consumed every year. They’re similarly popular around the world. They’re also the subject of a small mountain of folklore. And like all … Continue reading
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Hunter Davies’ The Quarrymen
I’ve been a Beatles fan from just about the beginning. I started collecting their albums at age 8 in early 1964, just after they first hit America. I’ll forever regret that I didn’t see their Ed Sullivan Show appearances. My … Continue reading
Michael Erlewine, Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra and Stephen Thomas Erlewine’s All Music Guide to Country
The All Music Guide to Country profiles more than 1,000 musicians and reviews more than 5,500 CDs in the stupefyingly enormous field of country music. It’s a good resource for the fan looking for some help in weeding out the … Continue reading
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