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Philip Marsden – Under a Metal Sky

Philip Marsden Under a Metal Sky review and information book about a journey through minerals, greed, and wonder. Catapult will publish the book by the English writer Philip Marsden, on November 4, 2025. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Philip Marsden Under a Metal Sky review

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Philip Marsden Under a Metal Sky

Under a Metal Sky

A Journey through Minerals, Greed, and Wonder

  • Author: Philip Marsden (England)
  • Book type: travel stories
  • Publisher: Catapult
  • Released: November 4, 2025
  • Length: 352 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook
  • Prize: € 29.00
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the Philip Marsden book

Under a Metal Sky examines the wonders and perils that the earth’s precious metals have offered humans, forever changing our relationship with the world around us

The ground beneath our feet is full of riches: the ochre that allowed prehistoric humans to paint on the cave walls; the tin that drove the early Industrial Revolution; radium, the source of Marie Curie’s wonder; and lithium, the essential mineral of modern life found in our mobile phones and laptops. Each of these minerals has a story to tell, and each has its place in the broader story of human history.

Under a Metal Sky takes us on a journey across the peat-rich Dutch lowlands, through Prague and Bohemia, and on to the gold-rich mountains of Georgia. Along the way, Marsden uncovers the strange and colorful histories of alchemy, scientific revolution, industrialization, and technological innovation, peopled by figures like the Habsburg Emperor Rudolf II, Goethe, Marie Curie, and William Blake. But alongside wonder and inspiration, there has also been plunder and heedless exploitation, the consequences of which have set us on a path towards our own extinction.

Beautifully written and mind-expanding, Under a Metal Sky seamlessly blends travel writing, cultural history, and geology. Who knew the history of rocks could be so page turning?

Philip Marsden was born May 11, 1961. He is the award-winning author of a number of works of travel writing, fiction, and nonfiction, including The Bronski House, The Spirit-Wrestlers, The Levelling Sea, and, for Granta, Rising Ground and The Summer Isles. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and his work has been translated into fifteen languages. He lives in Cornwall, England, on an old farm beside a tidal creek, and much of his time is now taken up trying to restore its biodiversity.

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Arnoud S.Q. Visser – On Pedantry

Arnoud S.Q. Visser On Pedantry review, recensie en informatie boek met een culturele geschiedenis van de betweter. Op 4 november 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek van Arnoud S.Q. Visser, de  hoogleraar vroegmoderne letterkunde aan de Universiteit van Utrecht over de geschiedenis van pedanterie en de betweter. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Arnoud S.Q. Visser On Pedantry review en recensie

  • “With élan and erudition (in just the right measure), Arnoud S. Q. Visser is our genial guide through the gentle groves of snobby academe. The mansplainer has been with us forever (or at least since the first guy who said, “actually….”). Here, in diesem herrlichen kleinen Band (as the Rheinisches Museum für Philologie might have styled it, circa Heft 3¾, 1873), we get the know-it-all from Casaubon’s monstrous bladder (yes, the one mocked in Middlemarch) to the guy who tells a NASA scientist (female, of course) to read her own work, to Marshall McLuhan popping up in Annie Hall (Woody Allen name-dropped in an academic book?!). I laughed, I cringed, I learned. (Srsly.)” (Andrew Hui)
  • “An elegant and witty history of the overbearing schoolmaster through the ages, On Pedantry wears its vast learning with a stylish lightness (though true pedants will revel in the breadth of Visser’s notes).” (Dennis Duncan)

Arnoud S.Q. Visser On Pedantry

On Pedantry

A Cultural History of the Know-it-All

  • Auteur: Arnoud S. Q. Visser (Nederland)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 4 november 2025
  • Omvang: 344 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 29,95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek van Arnoud S.Q. Visser over de geschiedenis  van pedanterie

A lively and entertaining cultural history of a supremely annoying intellectual vice.

Intellectuals have long provoked scorn and irritation, even downright aggression. Many learned individuals have cast such hostility as a badge of honor, a sign of envy, or a form of resistance to inconvenient truths. On Pedantry offers an altogether different perspective, revealing how the excessive use of learning has been a vice in Western culture since the days of Socrates.

Taking readers from the academies of ancient Greece to today’s culture wars, Arnoud Visser explains why pretentious and punctilious learning has always annoyed us, painting vibrant portraits of some of the most intensely irritating intellectuals ever known, from devious sophists and bossy savantes to hypercritical theologians, dry-as-dust antiquarians, and know-it-all professors. He shows how criticisms of pedantry have typically been more about conduct than ideas, and he demonstrates how pedantry served as a weapon in the perennial struggle over ideas, social status, political authority, and belief. Shifting attention away from the self-proclaimed virtues of the learned to their less-than-flattering vice, Visser makes a bold and provocative contribution to the history of Western thought.

Drawing on a wealth of sources ranging from satire and comedy to essays, sermons, and film, On Pedantry sheds critical light on why anti-intellectual views have gained renewed prominence today and serves as essential reading in an age of rising populism across the globe.

Arnoud S. Q. Visser is professor of textual culture in the Renaissance at Utrecht University and director of the Huizinga Institute, the Dutch national research school for cultural history. His books include A Cultural History of Fame in the Renaissance, Reading Augustine in the Reformation, and Joannes Sambucus and the Learned Image.

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Anthony Amore – The Rembrandt Heist

Anthony Amore The Rembrandt Heist review and information of the content of the true crime book with the Story of a Criminal Genius, a Stolen Masterpiece, and an Enigmatic Friendship. Pegasus Books will the book by Anthony M. Amore, The Rembrandt Heist, on November 4, 2025. Here you can read information about the content of the novel, the author and the publication.

Anthony Amore The Rembrandt Heist review

  • “Anthony Amore’s book gets up close and personal with Myles Connor, a seasoned art thief who was half of the duo that plucked the piece off the museum wall, and delving into the stranger-than-fiction back story of how and why he ended up at the center of one of the art world’s darkest moments.” (Town & Country)
  • “Amore delivers a dramatic and colorful recounting of the 1975 theft of Rembrandt’s Portrait of Elsbeth van Rijn from Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Amore constructs an impressively detailed play-by-play of the theft, drawing on his own investigations into the thefts of artworks and his access to Connor and Dotoli, both of whom he’d befriended, and sources in law enforcement and the art world. This captivates.” (Publishers Weekly)

Anthony Amore The Rembrandt Heist

The Rembrandt Heist

The Story of a Criminal Genius, a Stolen Masterpiece, and an Enigmatic Friendship

  • Author: Anthony M. Amore (United States)
  • Book type: true crime book
  • Publisher: Pegasus Books
  • Released: November 4, 2025
  • Length: 272 pages
  • Format: hardcover/ ebook
  • Prize: $ 29.95
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the true crime book by Anthony Amore

A true crime tale of unbelievable friendship, loyalty, criminal genius, and a staggeringly audacious plot to steal one of the world’s most valuable paintings—and return it.

On April 14, 1975, Myles Connor, already a known art thief, entered the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in disguise along with a cohort. The pair went directly the Dutch Gallery and proceeded to remove Portrait of Elsbeth van Rijn from its place on the wall. After a brief scuffle with the guards—with Myles deterring his partner from shooting a bystander—the pair was gone, leaving behind no traceable evidence amidst the mayhem.

Who was Myles Connor and what were his motivations? Most thieves are in it for the money, but Myles was far from most thieves. His motive was freedom. The summer before the heist, he was arrested by the FBI when he attempted to sell three highly valuable paintings by Andrew and N.C. Wyeth to an undercover agent. Incredibly, Myles did this while out on bail for possession of yet more stolen art. When he was arrested and placed in the back seat of a state police vehicle, the FBI agent said to him, “We’ve got you now. Let’s see you get out of this one.” Without batting an eye, Connor calmly replied, “Just you watch me.”

Again released on bail, Connor met with an old friend of his father’s, Massachusetts State Police Major John Regan. Regan worked for the District Attorney at the time, future Congressman William Delahunt. Connor asked Regan if there was any way out of the fix he was in, and the straightlaced cop told him bluntly, “It’s going to take a Rembrandt to get you out of this one.” With that, a master plan was hatched.

But there was a flip side to this story. One involving Connor’s best friend—Al Dotoli—who lived a life in the music industry, far from the world of art heists. Dotoli’s own masterpiece of a plan hinged on the Rembrandt’s return.

Filled with unforgettable personalities and non-stop action and intrigue, The Rembrandt Heist will lay out the anatomy of this notorious art theft while describing not just the criminal genius that is Myles Connor, but also the complexity of personal relationships between lifelong friends. All along, the reader will learn about a breathtaking painting by the world’s most famous artist and the incredible true story about how Portrait of Elsbeth van Rijn ended up on the wall at the MFA in the first place.

Anthony Amore is Director of Security and Chief Investigator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, where he is charged with the ongoing efforts to recover thirteen works of art stolen from the museum on March 18, 1990. Additionally, he is the co-author of Stealing Rembrandts (a Wall Street Journal bestseller) and author of The Art of the Con (a New York Times bestseller) and provides analysis on issues related to security and terrorism for the BBC, NBC News, NPR, CNN, FOX, and others. He lives in Boston, MA.

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Kim Bowes – Surviving Rome

Kim Bowes Surviving Rome review, recensie en informatie boek over het economische leven van negentig procent van de Romeinen. Op 4 november 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press het boek van Kim Bowes, hoogleraar archeologie en oude geschiedenis aan de Universiteit van Pennsylvania, over de gewone Romein. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Kim Bowes Surviving Rome review en recensie

  • “Finally, someone has written an economic history of Rome for the twenty-first century! In Surviving Rome, Kim Bowes does no less than challenge the whole field of ancient economic history, presenting us with a summons to think more empathetically about how ordinary Romans hustled, borrowed, and scraped to get by. She answers her own call with a radically new but highly current account of the Roman economy. This is a firecracker of a book, deeply researched and marvelously written, and I could not recommend it more.” (Seth Bernard, author of Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy)
  • “Surviving Rome explores the stress and strains, precarities and strategies of the people—the ordinary men, women, and children, enslaved and free—who shaped the world’s first ‘global’ economy. This is a brilliantly insightful microeconomic history that brings working people and their practices back into the Roman economy. Everyone interested in premodern economies should read this deeply perceptive and engagingly written book.” (Claire Taylor, author of Poverty, Wealth, and Well-Being)

Kim Bowes Surviving Rome

Surviving Rome

The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent

  • Auteur: Kim Bowes (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 4 november 2025
  • Omvang: 512 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 39,95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van Kim Bowes over de gewone Romein

A radical revision—and worker’s-eye view—of everything we thought we knew about the ancient Roman economy.

The story of ancient Rome is predominantly one of great men with great fortunes. Surviving Rome unearths another history, one of ordinary Romans, who worked with their hands and survived through a combination of grit and grinding labor.

Focusing on the working majority, Kim Bowes tells the stories of people like the tenant farmer Epimachus, Faustilla the moneylender, and the pimp Philokles. She reveals how the economic changes of the period created a set of bitter challenges and opportunistic hustles for everyone from farmers and craftspeople to day laborers and slaves. She finds working people producing a consumer revolution, making and buying all manner of goods from fine pottery to children’s toys. Many of the poorest working people probably pieced together a living from multiple sources of income, including wages. And she suggests that Romans’ most daunting challenge was the struggle to save. Like many modern people, saving enough to buy land or start a business was a slow, precarious slog. Bowes shows how these economies of survival were shared by a wide swath of the populace, blurring the lines between genders, ages, and legal status.

Drawing on new archaeological and textual evidence, Surviving Rome presents a radical new perspective on the economy of ancient Rome while speaking to the challenges of today’s laborers and gig workers surviving in an unforgiving global world.

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Laura K. Field – Furious Minds

Laura K. Field Furious Minds review, recensie en informatie boek over MAGA nieuw rechts en Donald Trump in Amerika. Op 6 november 2025 verschijnt bij Princeton University Press boek van Laura K. Field, de Amerikaanse politieke theoreticus en schrijfster over de Make America Great Again. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Laura K. Field Furious Minds review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, review en recensie verschijnt van Furious Minds, The Making of the MAGA New Right, geschreven door Laura K. Field, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Laura K. Field Furious Minds

Furious Minds

The Making of the MAGA New Right

  • Auteur: Laura K. Field (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse politiek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 4 november 2025
  • Omvang: 432 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: $ 35,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek over MAGA nieuw rechts in Amerika

The story of the radical conservative intellectual movement shaping Donald Trump’s agenda—and how it threatens American freedoms, values, and democracy.

Donald Trump is not a big thinker, but his 2016 presidential victory presented a grand opportunity for people who are, and it set off a radicalization and reconfiguration of the American conservative intellectual world. In Furious Minds, Laura Field, who spent close to a decade in conservative academic circles, chronicles the rise of the New Right—the network of academics, public intellectuals, and influencers who provide ideological fuel to Trumpism. This movement includes figures such as Patrick Deneen, Christopher Rufo, Peter Thiel, and JD Vance. Their agenda is built to last, and it has dire long-term implications for liberal democracy.

The New Right has precedents in American history, but it is distinct for its youthfulness, misogyny, and extraordinary successes—most notably the elevation of Vance to the vice presidency. The movement—which draws together associates of the right-wing Claremont Institute, National Conservatives, Postliberals, and the Hard Right—advocates nationalist economics, tight borders, isolationism, and reactionary social values. It helped to strategize January 6th and created Project 2025. But above all, the New Right is engaged in a vast culture war against modern liberal pluralism. It is determined to harness state power and use it in new, illiberal ways, from college campuses to the international scene—all driven by the fantasy of restoring a pure America.

Incisive and urgent, Furious Minds tells the story of the thinkers of the New Right—and their powerful assault on American freedoms, values, and ideals.

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Britse geschiedenis, Engeland, Engelse geschiedenis, Engelse historicus

Tracy Borman – The Stolen Crown

Tracy Borman The Stolen Crown. Grove Atlantic will publish this new book by Tracy Borman about treachery, deceit, and the death of the Tudor dynasty, on November 4 in 2025. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Tracy Borman The Stolen Crown review

  • “Pacy … makes the case that Elizabeth I played ‘a masterstroke of statecraft’ by not naming her successor … Borman tells the story with panache and urgency.” (The Times)
  • “Reveals sensational new evidence which throws doubt on everything historians thought they knew about the dying days of the Tudors . . . With this bit of dynamite in her toolbox, Borman now casts an eye back over the last decades of Elizabeth’s reign. And what she discovers is far more contorted, contested and downright bloody than previously understood … her interpretation of the latest forensic scholarship on the Elizabethan end days makes this a model work of popular history.” (Daily Mail)
  • “In tracing the history of the rival claimants, secret letters, and palace intrigues that marked the tumultuous end of the Tudor dynasty and start of the Stuart, Borman – thanks to newly uncovered material – lays bare the 400-year lie (zounds!) of Elizabeth I’s supposed deathbed naming of James I as her successor (“I’ll have none but him” she was purported to have declared).” (Globe and Mail)

Tracy Borman The Stolen Crown

The Stolen Crown

Treachery, Deceit, and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty

  • Author: Tracy Borman (England)
  • Book type: British history
  • Publisher: Grove Atlantic
  • To be released: November 4, 2025
  • Length: 448 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 30.00
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the book by Tracy Borman the end of Tudor and launche of the Stuart Dynasty

In the long and dramatic annals of British history, no transition from one monarch to another has been as fraught and consequential as that which ended the Tudor dynasty and launched the Stuart in March 1603. At her death, Elizabeth I had reigned for 44 turbulent years, facing many threats, whether external from Spain or internal from her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots. But no danger was greater than the uncertainty over who would succeed her, which only intensified as her reign lengthened. Her unwillingness to marry or name a successor gave rise to fierce rivalry between blood claimants to the throne—Mary and her son, James VI of Scotland, Arbella Stuart, Lady Katherine Grey, Henry Hastings, and more—which threatened to destabilize the monarchy.

As acclaimed Tudor historian Tracy Borman reveals in The Stolen Crown, according to Elizabeth’s earliest biographer, William Camden, in his history of her reign, on her deathbed the queen indicated James was her chosen heir, and indeed he did become king soon after she died. That endorsement has been accepted as fact for more than four centuries. However, recent analysis of Camden’s original manuscript shows key passages were pasted over and rewritten to burnish James’ legacy. The newly-uncovered pages make clear not only that Elizabeth’s naming of James never happened, but that James, uncertain he would ever gain the British throne, was even suspected of sending an assassin to London to kill the queen. Had all this been known at the time, the English people—bitter enemies with Scotland for centuries—might well not have accepted James as their king, with unimagined ramifications.

Inspired by the revelations over Camden’s manuscript, Borman sheds rare new light on Elizabeth’s historic reign, chronicling it through the lens of the various claimants who, over decades, sought the throne of the only English monarch not to make provision for her successor. The consequences were immense. Not only did James upend Elizabeth’s glittering court, but the illegitimacy of his claim to the throne, which Camden suppressed, found full expression in the catastrophic reign of James’ son and successor, Charles I. His execution in 1649 shocked the world and destroyed the monarchy fewer than 50 years after Elizabeth died, changing the course of British and world history.

Tracy Borman was born on January 1, 1972 in Scothern, Lincolnshire, England. She is Chief Historian of Historic Royal Palaces, Chief Executive of the Heritage Education Trust, and Chancellor and Professor of Tudor History at Lincoln Bishop University. She is the author of many highly acclaimed books, including Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I; Crown and Sceptre; Henry VIII and the Men Who Made Him; The Private Lives of the Tudors; Thomas Cromwell; Queen of the Conqueror; Elizabeth’s Women; Witches; as well as the trilogy of novels The King’s Witch, The Devil’s Slave, and The Fallen Angel. Borman is also a regular broadcaster and accomplished public speaker. She was awarded an OBE in the King’s Birthday Honours 2024 for services to heritage.

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Tony Lewin – BMW 3-Series 50 Years

Tony Lewin BMW 3-Series 50 Years review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van het boek over het legendarische automodel. Op 4 november 2025 verschijnt bij Autobooks het boek over BMW 3-Series die inmiddels vijftig jaar wordt gemaakt. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het autoboek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Tony Lewin BMW 3-Series 50 Years review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van BMW 3-Series 50 Years, het autoboek over het Duitse automodel automerk, geschreven door Tony Lewin, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Tony Lewin BMW 3-Series 50 Years

BMW 3-Series 50 Years

  • Auteur: Tony Lewin (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: autoboek, BMW boek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Motorbooks
  • Verschijnt: 4 november 2025
  • Omvang: 224 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 38,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de BMW 3-serie auto’s

Trace the 50-year success story of BMW’s 3-Series in this luxuriously produced and stunningly illustrated volume.

From its launch in 1975 with the 316, the 3-Series has moved from strength to strength, defining what it means to be a performance sedan/coupe/wagon. Beloved by enthusiasts worldwide, it is the series benchmarked by all other manufacturers. Whether daily driven, tracked, or raced, BMW’s 3-Series delivers the goods.

BMW 3-Series 50 Years charts the 3-Series’ design and technical evolution from the 1970s to today, from the clean, classic two-box design of the E21 and E30 to the handsome E46 to today’s sophisticated G20. The book features:

  • A detailed history of the BMW 3-Series by automotive historian and industry analyst Tony Lewin
  • First-person interviews with key designers and engineers
  • Photography from BMW’s archive as well as commissioned, contemporary photography
  • Sidebars diving into interesting stories covering design, related models like the Z cars, and the collector perspective

The 3-Series is a performance and competition story, as well, with no car more storied, or critical to BMW’s reputation, than its vaunted M3. Racing and M3s play out across the book’s chapters, providing a performance perspective across the 3-Series’ 50 years.

With decades of showroom, performance, and competition success, BMW’s 3-Series, in all its permutations, shows no signs of slowing down. BMW 3-Series 50 Years details the full story in a lively volume deserving space in every enthusiast’s collection.

Tony Lewin is a lifelong automotive commentator and industry analyst and has spent most of his career testing cars, analyzing them, and reporting on the ups and downs of the global enterprises that build them. He has been a regular writer and editor for Automotive News Europe and launched several pioneering titles for The Financial Times as well as contributing regular columns for other national and international publications. Today, Lewin divides his time between journalism, books, and translation work. His titles for Motorbooks include The BMW Century, How to Design Cars Like a Pro, The Complete Book of BMW, and Speed Read: Car Design. He also translated Junkyard: Behind the Gates at California’s Secretive European-Car Salvage Yard for Motorbooks. He lives in East Sussex, England.

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Catalina Infante – The Cracks We Bare

Catalina Infante The Cracks We Bare review, recensie en informatie over de roman van de uit Chili afkomstige schrijfster. Op 4 november 2025 verschijnt bij World Editions de Engelse vertaling van de roman van de Chileense schrijfster. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Catalina Infante The Cracks We Bare review en recensie

  • “When her daughter Antonia is born, Laura thinks of Esther, her mother. A mother who was not especially loving, who thought the best inheritance was a good education. A mother with whom Laura had may differences, and who died from cancer when she was 18. Laura finds photos and postcards that Esther never sent; she relives vague and elusive moments in her memory, and discovers that she did not know the woman who lived in her mother.” (La Tercera)
  • “A literary composition somewhere between a confessional diary and a costumbrista’s work that portrays society with some sarcasm, but also with the necessary dose of tenderness and hope. The author outlines, with a beautifully feminine intimacy, the shaken Chile of the last 30 year. The novel gives voice to an uprooted Chilean daughter of political exiles, in search of her own intimate identity, in a country that was foreign to her from the very moment of her birth.” (Cine y literatura)

Catalina Infante The Cracks We Bare

The Cracks We Bare

  • Auteur: Catalina Infante (Chili)
  • Soort boek: Chileense roman
  • Engelse vertaling: Michelle Mirabella
  • Uitgever: World Editions
  • Verschijnt: 4 november 2025
  • Omvang: 118 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 19,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van de Chileense schrijfster Catalina Infante

Motherhood is terrifying, thinks Laura, feeling small and helpless as she holds her newborn daughter.

Instead of joy, she feels fear, and then anger at her own late mother for her absence. The Cracks We Bear opens as a story about new motherhood. Soon, however, it reveals itself to be an exploration of memory and trauma as Laura starts to recall her childhood in Chile. Born in exile to staunchly communist parents, she returns to Chile with her mother after the collapse of the Pinochet dictatorship. In the fledgling democracy she grows up in, topics of capitalism and communism are ever present. Laura’s reflections, born from personal experience, are interwoven with raw and honest memories of her family life.

Borrowing elements from the Bildungsroman, and pulling from the Latin American short story tradition, Catalina Infante recounts Laura’s past in vignettes. Piece by piece, the short chapters come together like a reconstructed vase, bearing its cracks.

Catalina Infante was born in 1984 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is a Chilean writer, publisher, and co-owner of Librería Catalonia in Chile. She has written three books of stories of the indigenous peoples of Chile with Sonia Montecino, anthropologist and recipient of the Chilean National Social Sciences Award. She published her first book of short stories, Todas somos una misma sombraI, in 2018, followed by her English-language debut, Ferns. Published in 2020 by World Literature Today, Ferns was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and adapted into a short film by director Paz Ramírez. Infante’s short stories and poems have appeared in World Literature Today, Columbia Journal, the HarperCollins Daughters of Latin America anthology, and the Deep Vellum Best Literary Translations anthology. The Cracks We Bearis Infante’s first full-length novel translated into English.

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Het grote literatuurboek

Het grote literatuurboek recensie en informatie boek over de geschiedenis van de wereldliteratuur. Op 3 november 2025 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Noordboek de Nederlandse vertaling van The Literature Book, het boek over de geschiedenis van de wereldliteratuur. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteurs en over de uitgave.

Het grote literatuurboek recensie

Natuurlijk is er bovenmatig veel te schrijven en vertellen over de wereldliteratuur. En wat de inhoud van het boek zal zijn, altijd kun je er kritiek op uitoefenen, klagen dat sommige boeken en auteurs vergeten zijn of precies het tegenovergestelde dat er veel te veel aandacht voor is. Toch is het grote literatuurboek een geslaagde poging.

Op levendige wijze wordt in korte en goedgeschreven artikelen verteld over de geschiedenis van de literatuur, boeken en verhalen door de eeuwen heen. En de artikelen zijn op een aangename wijze verrijkt met goede afbeeldingen en foto’s, soms met verhelderende schema’s die dwarsverbanden en invloeden duidelijk zichtbaar maken.

Voor deze vertaling is het boek uitgebreid met hoogtepunten uit de Nederlandse en Vlaamse literatuur waarvoor in de oorspronkelijk uitgave geen aandacht is. Dat het boek hierdoor wel een wat vertekend beeld geeft over de importantie van de literatuur uit de Lage Landen is niet erg.

Al met al is het boek een geslaagde poging om de wereldliteratuur enigszins inzichtelijk te maken. Bovendien nodigt het uit om romans, poëzie en andere literatuur te herlezen om voor het eerst te ontdekken. Kortom een goed boek voor iedereen die iets meer over de wereldliteratuur te weten wil komen en geïnspireerd wil raken. Gewaardeerd met ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend).

Het grote literatuurboek

Het grote literatuurboek

  • Auteurs: Diverse auteurs
  • Nederlandse bewerking: Jan Bos
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Joost Zwart
  • Uitgever: Noordboek
  • Verschijnt: 3 november 2025
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: € 39,90
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekenwereld / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de wereldliteratuur

Het grote literatuurboek is de perfecte introductie tot de ideeën achter de literaire meesterwerken van ’s werelds grootste auteurs. Het beschrijft de belangrijkste romans, verhalen, toneelstukken en gedichten uit alle continenten en culturen – inclusief Nederland en Vlaanderen – aan de hand van de veranderende ideeën over literatuur en literaire stromingen.

Dit rijk geïllustreerde boek bevat meer dan honderd baanbrekende ideeën over grote literaire werken. Ze worden toegelicht aan de hand van auteursbiografieën, kernconcepten, tijdlijnen, portretten, mindmaps en andere afbeeldingen.

Samengesteld door een internationaal team van literatuurexperts, waaronder Richard Gilbert, Diana Loxley, Kirsty Seymour-Ure, Marek Walisiewicz en Christopher Westhorp.

Bijpassende boeken

Olifant, Dieren, Dierenboeken

Olifanten boeken

Olifanten boeken. Welke natuurboeken, dierengidsen, romans en kinder- en andere boeken over de olifant verschijnen er? Wat is het onderwerp van het olifantenboek? Wie is de auteur, schrijfster of schrijver van het boek?

Olifanten boeken over de olifant

Al vele duizenden jaren spreekt de olifant tot de verbeelding van de mens. Als grootste nog levende landzoogdier is dat niet vreemd. Echter al decennia lang staat het leven van de in het wild levende olifantensoorten onder druk. Bovendien zijn er heel wat olifantensoorten zoals bijvoorbeeld de mammoet uitgestorven.

Welke nieuwe boeken over de olifant verschijnen er?

In onderstaand overzicht zijn zowel non-fictie boeken als romans en andere fictie over de olifant opgenomen. Er is zowel aandacht voor als boek in het Nederlands als boeken die in het Engels worden uitgegeven. Het nieuwste boek staat bovenaan de lijst.

Asier Larramendi and Marco P. Ferretti Elephants reviewElephants and Their Fossil Relatives

A 60 Million Year Journey

  • Auteurs: Asier Larramendi, Marco P. Ferretti
  • Soort boek: olifantenboek, dierenboek
  • Taal; Engels
  • Uitgever: Princeton University Press
  • Verschijnt: 3 maart 2026
  • Omvang: 368 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: $ 39.95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
  • Inhoud boek: Today, only three species of elephants survive—the African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana), the African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis), and the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus). However, these modern giants represent just a fraction of the vast and diverse order Proboscidea, which includes not only living elephants but also their many extinct relatives. Over the past 60 million years, proboscideans have evolved and adapted across five continents, giving rise to an astonishing variety of forms, from the massive, woolly-coated mammoths of the Ice Age to the diminutive, island-dwelling dwarf elephants…lees verder >

Sophy Roberts Een school voor olifanten recensieEen school voor olifanten

In het spoor van Leopolds waanzinnige expeditie naar het hart van Congo

  • Auteur:  Sophie Roberts (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: koloniale geschiedenis van Congo
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Janne Van Beek, Tine Poesen
  • Origineel: A Training School for Elephants (2025)
  • Verschijnt: 26 november 2025
  • Omvang: 400 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: € 27,99 / € 15,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekenwereld / Bol / Libris
  • Inhoud boek: In 1879 – zes jaar voordat hij Congo in handen zou krijgen – lanceert koning Leopold II van België een even ambitieus als absurd plan om de rijkdommen van Afrika te plunderen. Wat als hij ivoor en andere kostbaarheden over het continent kan transporteren met de hulp van olifanten? Maar dan moet hij de dieren wel zien te temmen… En dus geeft hij de charismatische Ierse avonturier Frederick Carter de opdracht om vier tamme Aziatische olifanten van India naar de Oost-Afrikaanse kust te verschepen, vanwaar ze landinwaarts richting Congo zouden worden gedreven. Het ultieme doel: een opleidingsschool voor Afrikaanse olifanten…lees verder >

Nanet van Braam Houckgeest Hans en Parkie recensieHans en Parkie

Twee olifanten op Het Loo

  • Auteur: Nanet van Braam Houckgeest  (Nederland)
  • Soort boek: Nederlandse geschiedenis, olifantenboek
  • Uitgever: Uitgeverij Verloren
  • Verschijnt: 14 november 2025
  • Omvang: 130 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: € 20,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekenwereld / Bol / Libris
  • Inhoud boek: Het waargebeurde verhaal van de olifanten Hans en Parkie speelde zich af tijdens de turbulente regeerperiode van stadhouder Willem V. Hun leven werd blijvend beïnvloed door koloniale en politieke ontwikkelingen. Hans en Parkie zijn bijzonder. Bijzonder omdat ze in 1785 op jonge leeftijd met geweld van hun kudde werden gescheiden en toen samen van Sri Lanka naar Nederland werden gebracht. Maar liefst 17 jaar zouden ze bij elkaar blijven, ook nadat ze in 1797/98 als oorlogsbuit naar Parijs waren vervoerd en daar in de dierentuin werden tentoongesteld…lees verder >

Gaea Schoeters Het geschenk recensieHet geschenk

  • Auteur: Gaea Schoeters (België)
  • Vlaamse roman, Berlijn roman
  • Uitgever: Querido
  • Verschijnt: 4 juni 2025
  • Omvang: 128 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 19,99
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (zeer goed)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris
    Plots wemelt het in Berlijn van de olifanten. Algauw wordt duidelijk dat de dieren niet uit de dierentuin komen, maar een geschenk van de president van Botswana zijn. 20.000 olifanten heeft hij de Duitsers cadeau gedaan, als ‘dank’ voor de verscherpte wetgeving met betrekking tot de invoer van jachttrofeeën…recensie lezen >

Bijpassende boeken

Afbeelding bovenzijde: N. Anh (Unsplash)