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Dec 3, 2024

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Book Reviews
Allen Michie
Review of “Discredited: Power, Privilege, and Community College Transfer” by Lauren Schudde and…(Note: These opinions are my own, and they do not reflect the positions of any agency, employer, or organization.)
Nov 27, 2024
Nov 27, 2024
Allen Michie
Review of 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool by…This is a book that promises something other than it delivers, but it ends up being all the better for it.
Apr 1, 2024
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Apr 1, 2024
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Review of My Friend Van Gogh by Émile Bernard
Jul 23, 2024
Jul 23, 2024
Allen Michie
Review of “Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure” by Maria GoliaOrnette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure
 By Maria Golia
 London: Reaktion
 ISBN: 978–1–78914–223–5
 368 pp., $22.50 (hardback)
Sep 12, 2023
Sep 12, 2023
Allen Michie
Review of “Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius” by Nick HornbyDickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius by Nick Hornby. Riverhead, 192 pages, $18.
Aug 6, 2023
Aug 6, 2023
Allen Michie
Review of About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks by David RooneyDo you have time to read this review? How do you know?
Jul 22, 2023
Jul 22, 2023
Allen Michie
Book Review: “Was It Yesterday?:Was It Yesterday?: Nostalgia in Contemporary Film and Television, Ed.Matthew Leggatt. SUNY Press, 294 pages, Hardcover, $95, Kindle, $32.95
Jun 20, 2023
Jun 20, 2023
Allen Michie
Book Review: “Books Promiscuously Read” — Playing in the LeavesBooks Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life by Heather Cass White. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 175 pages, $25.
May 17, 2023
May 17, 2023
Allen Michie
Book Review: “B-Side Books: Essays on Forgotten Favorites” — Viva the Overlooked!B-Side Books: Essays on Forgotten Favorites (Edited by John Plotz). Columbia University Press, 280 pages, $26.
May 17, 2023
May 17, 2023
Allen Michie
Book Review: Anahid Nersessian’s “Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse” — More like a QuarrelKeats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse by Anahid Nersessian. University of Chicago, 160 pages, $20.
May 5, 2023
May 5, 2023
Allen Michie
Book Review: “Death in Her Hands” — There’s No Mystery to This MysteryDeath in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh. Penguin Press, 259 pages, $27.
May 5, 2023
May 5, 2023
Allen Michie
Poetry Remembrance: John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes” — Forever Young at 200Two hundred years ago, in the summer of 1820, John Keats published his last and least successful collection of poetry: Lamia, Isabella…
May 5, 2023
May 5, 2023
Allen Michie
Review of Disrupted Patterns: On Chaos and Order in the Enlightenment, edited by Theodore E.D.Now for something that has not been discussed in the pages of Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation for quite some time. Dr. Lynn…
Mar 19, 2023
Mar 19, 2023
Allen Michie
Review of A New Species of Criticism: Eighteenth-Century Discourse on the Novel by Joseph F.Reviewing Joseph F. Bartolomeo’s first book is a humbling task. Any reviewer risks the hypocrisy of missing the point in the very act of…
Feb 18, 2023
Feb 18, 2023
Allen Michie
Review of Tassie Gwilliam’s Samuel Richardson’s Fictions of GenderReaders hailed Samuel Richardson as a genius in his own day for the morality of his novels, and morality had everything to do with sex. In…
Feb 18, 2023
Feb 18, 2023

Book Reviews

Review of “Discredited: Power, Privilege, and Community College Transfer” by Lauren Schudde and…

(Note: These opinions are my own, and they do not reflect the positions of any agency, employer, or organization.)

Review of 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool by…

This is a book that promises something other than it delivers, but it ends up being all the better for it.

Review of My Friend Van Gogh by Émile Bernard

Review of “Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure” by Maria Golia

Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure By Maria Golia London: Reaktion ISBN: 978–1–78914–223–5 368 pp., $22.50 (hardback)

Review of “Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius” by Nick Hornby

Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius by Nick Hornby. Riverhead, 192 pages, $18.

Review of About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks by David Rooney

Do you have time to read this review? How do you know?

Book Review: “Was It Yesterday?:

Was It Yesterday?: Nostalgia in Contemporary Film and Television, Ed.Matthew Leggatt. SUNY Press, 294 pages, Hardcover, $95, Kindle, $32.95

Book Review: “Books Promiscuously Read” — Playing in the Leaves

Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life by Heather Cass White. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 175 pages, $25.

Book Review: “B-Side Books: Essays on Forgotten Favorites” — Viva the Overlooked!

B-Side Books: Essays on Forgotten Favorites (Edited by John Plotz). Columbia University Press, 280 pages, $26.

Book Review: Anahid Nersessian’s “Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse” — More like a Quarrel

Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse by Anahid Nersessian. University of Chicago, 160 pages, $20.

Book Review: “Death in Her Hands” — There’s No Mystery to This Mystery

Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh. Penguin Press, 259 pages, $27.

Poetry Remembrance: John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes” — Forever Young at 200

Two hundred years ago, in the summer of 1820, John Keats published his last and least successful collection of poetry: Lamia, Isabella…

Review of Disrupted Patterns: On Chaos and Order in the Enlightenment, edited by Theodore E.D.

Now for something that has not been discussed in the pages of Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation for quite some time. Dr. Lynn…

Review of A New Species of Criticism: Eighteenth-Century Discourse on the Novel by Joseph F.

Reviewing Joseph F. Bartolomeo’s first book is a humbling task. Any reviewer risks the hypocrisy of missing the point in the very act of…

Review of Tassie Gwilliam’s Samuel Richardson’s Fictions of Gender

Readers hailed Samuel Richardson as a genius in his own day for the morality of his novels, and morality had everything to do with sex. In…

Allen Michie