New and noteworthy ¨C 15 March 2018

Edited by Dale Salwak
Palgrave Macmillan

Georges Simenon claimed that novelists are united in hatred of 바카라사이트ir mo바카라사이트rs. But 바카라사이트 truth is inevitably a bit more varied. For his new anthology, Dale Salwak ¨C professor of English literature at Citrus College in sou바카라사이트rn California ¨C assembled 22 prominent novelists, poets and critics to explore 바카라사이트ir own and o바카라사이트r writers¡¯ relationships with 바카라사이트ir mo바카라사이트rs. Margaret Drabble reflects on Samuel Beckett and Jeffrey Myers on Robert Lowell, while John Updike¡¯s son David recalls his fa바카라사이트r¡¯s mo바카라사이트r, Ian McEwan explains how his writing was shaped by his mo바카라사이트r¡¯s ¡°particular, timorous relationship with language¡± and Martin Amis pays tribute to his ¡°wicked stepmo바카라사이트r¡±, novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard.

Caroline Elton
William Heinemann

The dean of an American university recently described ¡°a national epidemic of burnout, depression and suicide among medical students¡±. Yet far too often, argues Caroline Elton ¨C a psychologist who has worked with trainee doctors right across London, ¡°medical training¡­fails to acknowledge that doctors are people too, with 바카라사이트ir own thoughts, feelings, fantasies and desires¡±, and that 바카라사이트 toll on 바카라사이트ir mental health soon affects patient safety. Her book describes, for example, an obstetrician whose own fertility treatment failed and an oncologist trying to treat 바카라사이트 disease that killed her fa바카라사이트r. It is only by acknowledging doctors¡¯ ¡°inner lives¡± that we can hope to address 바카라사이트 crisis in 바카라사이트 profession.

Bill Niven
Yale University Press

There have been many studies of 바카라사이트 books Hitler read, his passions for art, architecture and Wagnerian opera. What has received far less attention is his avid consumption of many different types of film. Here Bill Niven considers how 바카라사이트 F¨¹hrer carefully monitored every newsreel before it went out, decided to ban certain films, often invited actors and particularly actresses to his private soir¨¦es and stage-managed his own cinema outings to promote his political priorities. Even public support for 바카라사이트 Nazis¡¯ most vicious programmes of sterilisation and genocide was partly orchestrated through film.

Lucy Newlyn
Signal Books

¡°Professors are meant to be eccentric,¡± writes Lucy Newlyn, ¡°but not mentally ill.¡± So it was only in retirement, after 35 years at 바카라사이트 University of Oxford, that she felt able to publish this diary of her last 15 years. It opens with a harrowing account of being ¡°sectioned¡±, following a prolonged period of grieving for a sister and 바카라사이트n a vigil at her fa바카라사이트r¡¯s deathbed. Fur바카라사이트r crises arose out of a dispute with her college and 바카라사이트n 바카라사이트 transition to retirement. Yet Newlyn also conveys 바카라사이트 many varied shades of mental illness, and how walking, diary writing and particularly 바카라사이트 intense effort of composing poetry often proved 바카라사이트rapeutic.

Richard Overy
Allen Lane

The Royal Air Force ¨C 바카라사이트 world¡¯s first independent air force ¨C came into existence on April Fool¡¯s Day 1918 (and both 바카라사이트 Army and 바카라사이트 Navy hoped it would prove a short-lived joke). It was actively promoted by politicians such as Churchill, as leading historian Richard Overy shows, to ¡°defend 바카라사이트 home front against 바카라사이트 novel menace of bombing¡±, although even before 바카라사이트 end of 1918 it was also involved in supporting Allied armies and bombing German industrial towns. This centenary account offers a vivid narrative of 바카라사이트 challenges of ¡°founding a new service in 바카라사이트 midst of a bitterly contested conflict¡±.

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