William Tyndale, Time Travel, and American Western Comics: March Books Roundup
The Art of the Book: 75 Years of Thames & Hudson by Anna Nyburg
Our monthly look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors.
Paper and Ink: Management for Fine Letterpress by Graham Williams
A useful guide to improve your letterpress printing from a genuine expert. Published by Florin Press
William Tyndale and the English Language by David Crystal
Published to mark the 500th anniversary of William Tyndale’s groundbreaking New Testament translation in 1526. "Dearly beloved", "the powers that be", and "for ever and ever" are among many expressions that first appeared in print in Tyndale’s work. Crystal, the most popular writer on linguistic issues in the UK, looks at his prose style and work as an early lexicographer and his influence on later biblical translations. From Bodleian Libraries.
Langston Hughes’s Troubled Lands: Stories of Mexico & Cuba edited by Richard Wilson
In 1934 Langston Hughes travelled to Mexico City where he stayed for more than five months and began translating short fiction by prominent Mexican and Cuban writers for a book project. It has remained unpublished until now, with only a handful of the translations making their way into contemporary magazines. This volume presents Hughes’s translations of 33 stories together for the first time as he originally envisioned featuring Rafael Felipe Muñoz, Nellie Campobello, Lino Novás Calvo, Luis Felipe Rodríguez, Germán List Arzubide, Pablo de la Torriente-Brau, and Juan de la Cabada. Published by Princeton University Press.
On Morrison by Namwali Serpell
A primer with close readings to Morrison's fiction, criticism, dramatic works, and poetry. Published by Hogarth.
Printing Nueva York: Spanish-Language Print Culture, Media Change, and Democracy in the Late Nineteenth Century by Kelley Kreitz
An important look at the network of Spanish-language writers and editors including José Martí, Rafael Serra, and Sotero Figueroa in 19th century New York during the developing age of mass media and democracy. From NYU Press.
The Boundless Deep by Richard Holmes
A new biography of Alfred Tennyson which focuses particularly on how the poet came to grips with contemporary ideas about geology, cosmology, deep time, and social revolution. Published by Pantheon.
The Infinite Loop: Archives and Time Travel in the Popular Imagination by Lynne M. Thomas and Katy Rawdon
Published by ALA Neal-Schuman and with a foreword by Connie Willis, this is a fascinating look at science fiction writing and how it represents archivists and archives, looking at a wide range of creations such as H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, Doctor Who, Octavia Butler’s Kindred, Toshikazo Kawaguchi’s Before the Coffee Gets Cold, and Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts.
The Fire Inside: The Dharma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde by Rima Vesely-Flad
An exploration of Buddhism's key principles and their relation to the work of Audre Lorde and James Baldwin. Includes meditation exercises. Published by North Atlantic Books
Thinking Through Shakespeare by David Womersley
A critical look at how Shakespeare's concern with basic questions of identity, civilisation, political power, morality, and religion and how they remain relevant to the modern reader. Published by Princeton University Press.
The Art of the Book: 75 Years of Thames & Hudson by Anna Nyburg
A highly illustrated happy birthday celebration to the publishing house established in 1949 by Walter and Eva Neurath to combine art (in the most general sense) and scholarship and make both increasingly accessible to the public. Published by T&H.
Redrawing the Western: A History of American Comics and the Mythic West by William Grady
From the University of Texas Press, this is a comprehensive history of American Western genre comics from the late 1800s to the present day, and how its stories were relevant to contemporary social and political thinking.
