Known to evil

Author: Mosley, Walter

Title: Known to evil

Published New York: Riverhead Books, 2010

Description: 325 p. ; 24 cm.

Call Number: PS3563 O88456 K58 2010

Summary: Alfonse Rinaldo, the mysterious power-behind- the-throne at City Hall, the fixer who seems to control every little thing that happens in New York City, has a problem that even he can’t fix--and he’s come to Leonid McGill for help. It seems a young woman has disappeared, leaving murder in her wake, and it means everything to Rinaldo to track her down

Subject(s):

• Private investigators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
• Political corruption -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
• New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
• Domestic fiction
• Suspense fiction

Review(s):

• Graff, Keir. "Known to Evil." Booklist 106, no. 12 (February 15, 2010): 4
• "Known to Evil." Publishers Weekly 257, no. 4 (January 25, 2010): 100
• "KNOWN TO EVIL." Kirkus Reviews 78, no. 2 (January 15, 2010): 65

Read: April 27, 2011

Monsters of the Gevaudan: the making of a beast

 Author: Smith, Jay M.,1961-

Title: Monsters of the Gevaudan: the making of a beast

Published: Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011

Description: 378 p. :ill. ; 25 cm.

Call Number: DC611 G4 S64 2011

Bibliography: https://monstersofthegevaudan.web.unc.edu/bibliography/

Content(s):

• Introduction: The beast and its world
• Sounding the alarm
• Monsters real and imagined
• Digesting defeat
• A star is born
• The perils of publicity
• Heroes and skeptics
• Exaggerated expectations and extraordinary endings
• Narrative echoes past and present
• Conclusion: The beast in history
• Note on place names

Subject(s):

• Gevaudan (France) -- Social life and customs -- 18th century
• Popular culture -- France -- Gevaudan -- History -- 18th century
• Beast of Gevaudan -- History
• Wolf attacks -- France -- Gevaudan -- History -- 18th century
• Wolves -- France -- Gevaudan -- Folklore
• Monsters -- France -- Gevaudan -- Folklore
• Narration (Rhetoric) -- Social aspects -- France -- History
• Discourse analysis, Narrative

Review(s):

• Zaretsky, Robert. "Monsters of the Gévaudan: The Making of a Beast." Journal Of Interdisciplinary History 42, no. 3 (Winter 2012): 459-461
• SMITH, JUSTIN E. H. "Our Animals, Ourselves." Chronicle Of Higher Education 58, no. 15 (December 2, 2011): B6-B10
• Darnton, Robert. "The Wolf Man's Revenge." New York Review Of Books 58, no. 10 (June 9, 2011): 39-41

Read: April 24, 2011

The kindly ones: a novel

Author: Littell, Jonathan, 1967-

Title: The kindly ones: a novel

Published: New York: Harper Perennial, 2010

Description: 983 p. ; 21 cm.

Call Number: PQ3939 L58 B513 2010

Note(s): Translated by Charlotte Mandell. Originally published as: Les beinveilantes. Paris: Éditons Gallimard, 2006. Winner of Prix Goncourt, 2006, Grand Prix du roman, 2006

Summary: Fictional memoir of Dr. Max Aue, a former Nazi officer who survived the war and has reinvented himself, many years later, as a middle-class entrepreneur and family man in northern France. Max is an intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music. He is also a cold-blooded assassin and the consummate bureaucrat. Through the eyes of this cultivated yet monstrous man, we experience the horrors of the Second World War and the Nazi genocide of the Jews in graphic, disturbingly precise detail from the dark and disturbing point of view of the executioner rather than the victim. During the period from June 1941 through April 1945, Max is posted to Poland, the Ukraine, and the Caucasus; he is present at the Battle of Stalingrad, at Auschwitz and Cracow; he visits occupied Paris and lives through the chaos of the final days of the Nazi regime in Berlin. Although Max is a totally imagined character, his world is peopled by real historical figures, such as Eichmann, Himmler, Goring, Speer, Heydrich, Hoss, and Hitler himself

Subject(s):

• Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel -- Fiction
• Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Einsatzgruppen des Sicherheitsdienstes und der Sicherheitspolizei -- Fiction
• Nazis -- Fiction
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Fiction
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction
• Bisexual men -- Germany -- Fiction
• Historical fiction

Review(s):

• LACAPRA, DOMINICK. "HISTORICAL AND LITERARY APPROACHES TO THE 'FINAL SOLUTION': SAUL FRIEDLÄNDER AND JONATHAN LITTELL." History & Theory 50, no. 1 (February 2011): 71-97
• Razinsky, Liran. "Not the Witness We Wished For: Testimony in Jonathan Littell's "Kindly Ones.." In Modern Language Quarterly, 175-196. 2010
• Theweleit, Klaus. "On the German Reaction to Jonathan Littell's Les bienveillantes." New German Critique no. 106 (Winter 2009): 21-34
• Franklin, Ruth. "NIGHT AND COG." New Republic 240, no. 5 (April 2009): 38-43
• MOYN, SAMUEL. "A Nazi Zelig." Nation 288, no. 11 (March 23, 2009): 31-34

Read: April 13, 2011