Archive for December 2008
ARTstor Adds New Collections: Georgia O’Keefe and Architecture of Britain
Posted by: asclibrarian on: December 8, 2008
The library database ARTstor has just added two exciting new collections. Now available – Architecture of Britian, images from Brian Davis – offers 1,600 images from the archive of Brian Davis. The ARTstor press release states that “The collection documents architectural and garden sites in Europe, primarily architecture in Britain from the Middle Ages to [...]
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New York Times Book Review
- Stephen King’s Glass MenagerieWhen an enormous transparent dome settles over a small town in Maine in Stephen King’s new novel, it’s just fine with Big Jim, the local tyrant-in-waiting, and his pet goon squad.
- The Critic’s CriticA valuable new biography of Samuel Johnson, the most eminent of all literary critics.
- Barbara Kingsolver’s Artists and IdolsThis novel, about a boy’s consequential bonds with Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Leon Trotsky, is a call to conscience and connection.
- Animal PlanetAmy Gerstler’s poems — skillful in every kind of comedy, yet deeply serious — show a fondness for animals without sentimentalizing them.
- Happy DaysAn argument that can-do optimism has hardened into a suffocating force that bears little relation to genuine happiness.
