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Detail of cover of The Mask of Atreus The Making of a Thriller
By Taylor McNeil
Andrew Hartley probably wasn't plotting a march to the paperback best-seller list when he was getting a master's and a doctorate in English at BU, but he's doing it now.

Image from Hungry Planet: What the World Eats Peter Menzel
By Natalie Jacobson McCracken
This photographer and writer[...] survey eating around the world the most eloquent way: one family at a time, each section opening with a photograph of the family gathered around a table displaying a week's food.

Detail of cover of Sophia: A Woman’s Search for Troy Discoverer of Troy
By Steve Dykes
In this novel, first published in Germany in 1994, Joaquim explores the nineteenth-century story of Sophia Schliemann and her husband, the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, as they discover and excavate the citadels of ancient Troy and Mycenae...
Polyhistor*
A talk with Peter Meltzer (CAS'80, LAW'83), compiler of The Thinker's Thesaurus: Sophisticated Alternatives to Common Words (Marion Street).

Fall 2005 Reviews

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