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A re-read – and a masterpiece. Roth's depiction of the life and world of Seymour 'The Swede' Levov is all-consuming, the Swede's troubles and fall (and rise) shattering. I re-read this after 20 years, now a father myself, and took a whole world more from it than first time out at 25. Sabbath's Theater may be a better or more extraordinary book but American Pastoral has its attack and pitch-black humor too and much more besides. In the “indigenous American berserk”, Roth named something at the heart of America – ever so but rarely more so than now. I don't read fiction, in general – but Philip Roth will always be the exception.
Philip Roth's fiction has often explored the human need to demolish, to challenge, to oppose, to pull apart. Now, writing with deep understanding, with enormous power and scope and great storytelling energy, he focuses on the counterforce: the longing for an ordinary life. Seymour 'Swede' Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's glove factory - comes of age in thriving, triumphant, postwar America. He has a beautiful wife - Miss New Jersey 1949 - and a lively, precocious daughter, Merry. She is the apple of his eye…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
This is an opportunity to revisit Middle-Earth. Like many science fiction and fantasy fans, I grew up on Tolkien and devoured everything I could of his writing. The later collections of notes and fragments compiled by Christopher Tolkien have always been somewhat impenetrable for me, teasing a recapture of the magic from those early days. However, not until these new compiled works have been released have they spoken to me in the same way.
Reading the book as an audio work also helped. This makes the notes and commentary palatable without dragging you away from the narration of events.
J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one volume complete with new illustrations in watercolor and pencil by renowned artist Alan Lee.
J.R.R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a "dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told." And for many years readers would need to be content with the tantalizing glimpses of it found within the pages of The Lord of the Rings and its appendices, including the forging of the Rings of Power, the building of the Barad-dûr and the rise…
A trip down memory lane to a world I once spent days and days within. LEGO Space was my Lego and Tim Goddard's re-imagining of the story behind those classic models, welding the fiction into a historical LEGO account of humanity's early explorations of space is just brilliant. A must read for any fans of 1980s LEGO.
Come explore an incredible LEGO (R) universe in LEGO Space: Building the Future. Spaceships, orbital outposts, and new worlds come to life in this unique vision of the future, built completely from LEGO bricks. A selection of step-by-step building instructions will have you constructing your own cosmic creations to play with at home. Marvel at interstellar battlecruisers, space pirates, charming robots, and other stunning builds from an amazing future!
A Duke with rigid opinions, a Lady whose beliefs conflict with his, a long disputed parcel of land, a conniving neighbour, a desperate collaboration, a failure of trust, a love found despite it all.
Alexander Cavendish, Duke of Ravensworth, returned from war to find that his father and brother had…
Robert Kagan created headlines of his own before the US election, by resigning from the Washington Post when its owner, Jeff Bezos, declined to offer an endorsement. Kagan should make headlines after the election for his prescience in Rebellion, which was published in February 2024 and outlined precisely the forces that then promised to push Donald Trump back towards the White House. Spoiler alert: Trump won. Read Kagan to understand why.
A chilling and clear-eyed warning about the threats to our democracy posed by the increasing radicalization of the Republican Party, from a leading historian and intellectual
The 2024 election could be the last free election held in a unified America. So warns Robert Kagan in this brilliant and terrifying analysis of the perilous state of democracy in the United States today. If Donald Trump loses the upcoming election, as he did in 2020, but refuses to accept the result, as he also did in the last election, he is likely to call on his millions of followers to repudiate the…
