by envisionmg | Jul 7, 2021 | Summer Reading
The Social Cinema of Jean Renoir – Christopher Faulkner “Reinterpreting twelve of Renoir’s best-known works, Professor Faulkner attributes their qualities not to the director’s unified sensibility but to varying social and historical...
by envisionmg | Jul 2, 2021 | Non-fiction, Staff Reading
1774 The Long Year of Revolution – Mary Beth Norton “In this masterly work of history, the culmination of more than four decades of research and thought, Mary Beth Norton looks at the sixteen months leading up to the clashes at Lexington and Concord in...
by envisionmg | Jun 30, 2021 | Summer Reading
The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present – Eric R. Kandal “At the turn of the century, Vienna was the cultural capital of Europe. Artists and scientists met in glittering salons,...
by envisionmg | Jun 28, 2021 | Summer Reading
Hour of the Witch – Chris Bohjalian “Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors. But here in the New World, amid this community of saints, Mary is the...
by envisionmg | Jun 23, 2021 | Summer Reading
A Master of Djinn – P. Djeli Clark “Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha’arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she’s certainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of the...
