This Week's Acquisitions

• Emma Lazarus, Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings, ed. Gregory Eiselein (Broadview, 2002). Anthology devoted to the famous nineteenth-century American Jewish poet and critic, author of this prominently located poem. More on Lazarus at the Jewish Women's Archive.

• John Banville, Mefisto (Godine, 1999). Contemporary take on the Faust legend. (Not to be confused with Klaus Mann's fine Mephisto.)

• Madison Smartt Bell, Doctor Sleep (Grove, 2003). Insomniac hypnotherapist as detective.

• Penelope Lively, City of the Mind(Grove, 2003). An architect deals with life and London.

• Rick Moody, Demonology (Faber & Faber, 2000). Short stories.

• Junichiro Tanizaki, The Makioka Sisters (Everyman, 1993). Aristocratic Japanese family desperately tries to marry off one of four sisters.

• Wendy S. Jones, Consensual Fictions: Women, Liberalism, and the Novel (Toronto, 2005). Political theory, marriage, and the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel. (I'm reviewing it for Choice.)

Comments

[Bourgeois Nerd]

That "The Makoika Sisters" sounds very interesting. I'll have to check it out.

BTW, where has Friday Cat Blogging gone? We haven't seen the kitties in a while.

[Miriam]

Camera behaving badly (there's something odd going on with the autofocus, which isn't).