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The article reviews several books including "The Invention of Pastel Painting," by Thea Burns, "Art on Paper: Mounting and Housing," edited by Judith Rayner, Joanna M.Kosek and Birthe Christensen, and "Textiles and Text: Re-establishing the Links Between Archival and Object-based Research," edited by Maria Hayward and Elizabeth Kramer.

The article reviews several books including "The Pickwick Papers," by Charles Dickens, "The Lay of the Land," by Richard Ford, and "Engleby," by Sebastian Faulks.

Reviews the book 'The Pickwick Papers,' by Charles Dickens, edited by James Kinsley.

Reviews the book 'Buba Leah and Her Paper Children,' by Lillian Hammer Ross.

The article reviews several books including "Generation Zombie: Essays on the Living Dead in Modern Culture," edited by Stephanie Boluk and Wylie Lenz, "The Generation Starship in Science Fiction: A Critical History, 1934-2001," by Simone Caroti and "War, Politics and Superheroes: Ethics and Propaganda in Comics and Film," by Marc DiPaolo.

The article reviews the book "Le Chien d'or/The Golden Dog: A Legend of Quebec," written by William Kirby and edited by Mary Jane Edwards.

Reviews several books for Spanish-speaking adolescents. "Glabro, legionario de Rom (Glabro, Roman Legionaire)," by Juan Bas; "Ecos de la conquista (Echos of the Conquest)," by Maria Cristina Urrutia and Krystyna Libura; "Las piedras que hablan (Stones That Talk)," by Ghazi Abdel-Qadir.

Reviews the book "On Metaphor," edited by Sheldon Sachs.

The article reviews several books including "End Papers," by Breyten Breytenbach, "Mating Birds," by Lewis Nkosi and "The Scaffold," by Edward Lurie.

The aim of this paper is to explore the boundaries imposed over Hema and Kaushik, two second-generation diasporic characters who, despite being born in unfamiliar terrain and thus likely to flourish, consistently feel entangled between delusion, because they almost pathologically search for unattainable desires, and nostalgia and defeat in their personal pursuit of individual, familiar and social happiness, as well as the nourishing interconnectedness among the three dimensions in these stories. In this light, the correspondences and dead-ends in their meaningful quest for belonging and fulfillment as human beings acquire greater significance. The nuances, suggestive associations and contradictions inherent to their search are investigated and the special role of diaspora within the three stories is pondered. Lahiri probes the power of literature through these stories and endows the two characters’ failed relationship with universal significance by placing it in the realm of the possible, enacted through the act of reading. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Murakami's 2002 novel, Umibe no Kafka (translated by Philip Gabriel and published as Kafka on the Shore , 2005), is a psychoanalytical interrogation of the mind of a young, deeply disturbed patricide whose Oedipal crisis culminates in a descent to the pre-Oedipal, Kristevan ‘semiotic’ level of the unconscious in order to begin the healing process. This paper draws on psychoanalytic literary criticism along Kristevan lines in its focus on the young women in Kafka on the Shore , who, as in many of Murakami's novels, play important roles in the male protagonist's progress. Sakura comfortably belongs to the outside world ruled by the symbolic order, and her presence, along with the other strongly heterosexual character, Sada, provide the outer frame for Kafka's inner journey. The androgynous, uncannily insightful Ōshima, on the other hand, plays a central role in shaping Kafka's progress in his liminal journey towards psycho-sexual health, and is well served by a Kristevan analysis. However, both the liminal stage and the mainstream, ‘real’ space are dominated by a rather old-fashioned, Lacanian view of heterosexuality as the normal subjectivity, focusing on the male, homogeneous body as the ideal, limiting the applicability of the Kristevan approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chloë Kitzinger's book, "Mimetic Lives: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Character in the Novel," offers new insights into the works of Lev Tolstoi and Fedor Dostoevskii. Kitzinger examines the techniques of mimetic characterization used by these authors in four major novels. The book explores how these authors create a "narrative illusion" of reality through their representation of characters and their relationships. Kitzinger's analysis sheds light on the development of mimetic narratives in European literature, particularly in the context of nineteenth-century Russian realism. The book contributes to the interdisciplinary study of Russian realism and offers innovative readings of canonical texts. [Extracted from the article]

I The Cypher Bureau i is historical fiction; this book by Eilidh McGinness was inspired by the life and codebreaking work of Marian Rejewski. These quotes come from Chapter 7 and are set during a meeting in Paris between Rejewski and Alan Turing in January 1940. Three paragraphs later Rejewski and Turing are still meeting, and Rejewski is speaking. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book 'Monster in Our Midst,' by Peggy Woodford.

The article reviews the book "Property Rights and Land Policies: Proceedings of the 2008 Land Policy Conference," edited by Gregory K. Ingram and Yu-Hung Hong.

Reviews the book "A Black Sheep: Some Episodes in His Life," by Ada Cambridge, edited by Elizabeth Morrison.

The article reviews the book "Block Books: Letters, Numbers, Colors, Animals," by Borje Svensson, paper engineering by James Diaz.

Reviews the book "Revising: New Essays for Teachers of Writing," edited by Ronald A. Sudol.

A review of the book "Ballad of the Himalayas: Stories of Tibet," written by Ma Yuan and translated by Herbert Batt is presented.

Reviews the book "The Heidelberg Myth: The Nazification and Denazification of a German University," by Steven P. Remy.

The article reviews several books including "The Goose and the Golden Coins," by Lorinda Bryan Cauley, "The Man Who Kept House," by Michael Hague and "Harald and the Giant Knight," by Donald Carrick.