renewal and compassion after violence: "Set in the Catalan Pyrenees, _When I Sing, Mountains Dance_ is intimately tied to its setting, to the mountain slopes and scattered dwellings and local community." dannyreviews.com/h/When_Sing_Mo…

From Röntgen to the Large Hadron Collider, _The Matter of Everything_ tells the story of key discoveries in modern atomic and particle physics, with a focus on the key experiments and experimental systems dannyreviews.com/h/Matter_Every…

metafiction and massacre: scripting the Philippines dannyreviews.com/h/Insurrecto.h…

"an accessible overview of one of the most mysterious of ancient urban cultures" dannyreviews.com/h/Indus.html

"a fairly comprehensive survey of church-going in medieval England -- who was involved, what they did and when, and the broader context, social, institutional, architectural and liturgical" dannyreviews.com/h/Going_Church…

"a character study, but one with an involving geographical and social setting and with good pacing and effective integration of its sub-stories" dannyreviews.com/h/Pastor.html

Wendy Doniger's _The Hindus: An Alternative History_ and Fred W. Clothey's _Religion in India: A Historical Introduction_ - a review dannyreviews.com/h/Hindus_Relig…

"A post-apocalypse novel told from the point of view of one of the zombies, _It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over_ begins with the heroine losing one of her arms and stuffing a zombie crow into her chest." Fitzcarraldo Editions dannyreviews.com/h/Lasts_Foreve…

"With some 130 short essays treating quite narrow topics, _France in the World_ offers a 'pointillist' rendering of French history, with a focus on global connections." dannyreviews.com/h/France_World…

"centres Copenhagen's experience but offers fairly general advice on urban cycling, drawing on examples from around the world" dannyreviews.com/h/Copenhageniz…

my review of _Traffication: How Cars Destroy Nature and What We Can Do About It_ dannyreviews.com/h/Traffication… "ecologist Paul Donald looks at noise, air and light pollution among other harms, and at the effects on populations and species and ecosystems, not just on individual animals"

Korea: A New History of South and North - from political divergence to possible futures dannyreviews.com/h/Korea_New_Hi… (my review)

Happy Stories, Mostly dannyreviews.com/h/Happy_Storie… short stories about gay students from Batak Christian backgrounds, and their mothers

Theorems of the 21st Century dannyreviews.com/h/Theorems_21s… (my review) - elementary explanations of a hundred mathematical results

a metafictional circling around an imagined meeting in 1926 between two pioneering Armenian feminist writers, Shushank Kurghinian and Zabel Yesayan, inside a frame involving the author and a friend researching their lives dannyreviews.com/h/Book_Untitle… (my review)

Edemariam's _The Wife's Tale_ a biography of the author's grandmother, who was born around 1916 in Gondar, Ethiopia, was married at age eight to a high-ranking clergyman, and lived for nearly a century, through huge political upheavals and social change. dannyreviews.com/h/Wifes_Tale.h…

When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be (Martin Williams) - my review dannyreviews.com/h/Sahara_Green… (@princetonupress.bsky.social 2021)

A Millennium of Amsterdam: Spatial History of a Marvellous City dannyreviews.com/h/Millennium_A… (my review)

_The Year of the Hare_ - a journalist takes a hare on a light-hearted romp through rural Finland dannyreviews.com/h/Year_Hare.ht… (my review)

Oral history integrated into a compelling narrative - my review of David Van Reybrouck's _Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World_ dannyreviews.com/h/Revolusi.html