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Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg
July 29, 2023The time between New Year’s 1956 and April 1958 was a period of general uncertainty and...
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Book Review: Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan
July 20, 2023The course of Curtis’ campaign to document the lives and life style of the Native American...
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Book Review: John Keats: A New Life by Nicholas Roe
July 6, 2023Whether one approaches Keats’ life by reading a biography or by the direct study of his...
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Charlie Chan: A Hero of Sorts
July 1, 2023An ethnic image is tricky, full of half-truths and snapshot attributes. In the Chan mysteries, there...
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Book Review: Titian: His Life by Sheila Hale
June 26, 2023Seeing a paint brush on the floor, the emperor reached down to retrieve it and presented...
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Dianetics: A Dialogue
May 14, 2023“You clear me? I clear you? It’s not hypnotism, if that’s what scares you. You’re fully...
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Book Review: The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon
May 5, 2023The title The Book of My Lives is apt: rather than presenting a seamless memoir, Hemon...
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A Long Day’s Day with James Dickey
April 24, 2023“Ah yes,” he whispered to me, ”I spent one helluva long night wrassling all over the...
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The Persecution of P.G. Wodehouse
April 24, 2023Was P.G.Wodehouse, the legendary master of farce, party to Nazi propaganda during World War II? This...
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Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde
April 24, 2023The overall sensation evoked by examining the works on display in “Cezanne to Picasso,” however, is...