Stories By Julia Braun Kessler
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards
March 19, 2024If anything can be said with certainty about our fickle reading public, it is that they...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Art Detective by Philip Mould
February 12, 2024Yet another of his discoveries turns out to be a lost watercolor by one of America’s...
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Fiction Reviews
The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
January 23, 2024A startling achievement in a first novel, the work seems to have already touched a chord...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Churchill by Paul Johnson
January 6, 2024And Johnson reminds us of the memorable words he spoke after France capitulated: “Let us therefore...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Bolter by Frances Osborne
December 22, 2023She introduces a woman who may have upset those around her by her promiscuity, even nymphomania,...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Manhattan: School for Scriveners
December 19, 2023For me, it was the people themselves, their intellectual inclinations, their sophisticated speech, their crisp wit...
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Fiction Reviews
All Our Worldly Goods by Irene Nemirovsky
December 10, 2023How might we doubt that any long dead, wholly forgotten writer, who has re-emerged and within...
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Fiction Reviews
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
November 30, 2023Such a pity Mary Ann Shaffer is not around to enjoy her celebrity! Shaffer died in...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia by Tim Tsouliadis
November 29, 2023Readers of faint heart beware when embarking upon this superb work of history. So many stories...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Man Who Made Lists by Joshua Kendall
November 18, 2023By the end of that lecture, Roget had concluded that one of the causes of “the...