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Book Review: Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
September 26, 2025The happiness was not to last. More Scrooge than Bob Cratchit in some respects, he was...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Blue Nights by Joan Didion
September 23, 2025We learn that Quintana Roo was adopted, a beautiful precocious girl with hair “bleached by the...
Writers
Book Review: Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark by Brian Kellow
September 21, 2025So if she wasn’t pleasant, what was Pauline Kael? She was earthy; she was tough; she...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer
September 8, 2025Neumeyer responded with scholarly esprit, but he was hard put to equal his partner’s digressions. The...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Cleopatra: A Biography by Duane W. Roller
May 20, 2025Pity Duane W. Roller, author of Cleopatra: A Biography. I can just imagine the initial conversation...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Wild Romance: A Victorian Story of a Marriage, a Trial, and a Self-Made Woman by Chloë Schama
May 17, 2025A secret affair. A scandalous sex-filled trial. A tell-all novel. If it’s any consolation to Tiger...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom: The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth by Charles Beauclerk
May 12, 2025I would have thought Shakespeare in Love might have advanced our understanding of the authorship debate,...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The American Girl by Monika Fagerholm
May 1, 2025It's a radioactive fairy tale, with adults known only by nicknames (the Black Sheep, the baroness)...
Fiction Reviews
The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
April 22, 2025Oliver won’t socialize. He won’t even speak. He simply spends his days wrapped in his obsession,...
Fiction Reviews
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
April 20, 2025For Last Night in Twisted River is the work of a seasoned tale-teller, a writer who...
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