Stories By Elinor Teele
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Biography
Book Review: Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
January 30, 2023The happiness was not to last. More Scrooge than Bob Cratchit in some respects, he was...
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Biography
Book Review: Blue Nights by Joan Didion
January 26, 2023We learn that Quintana Roo was adopted, a beautiful precocious girl with hair “bleached by the...
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Biography
Book Review: Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark by Brian Kellow
January 26, 2023So if she wasn’t pleasant, what was Pauline Kael? She was earthy; she was tough; she...
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Art
Book Review: Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer
January 4, 2023Neumeyer responded with scholarly esprit, but he was hard put to equal his partner’s digressions. The...
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Biography
Book Review: Cleopatra: A Biography by Duane W. Roller
September 19, 2022Pity Duane W. Roller, author of Cleopatra: A Biography. I can just imagine the initial conversation...
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Biography
Book Review: Wild Romance: A Victorian Story of a Marriage, a Trial, and a Self-Made Woman by Chloë Schama
September 16, 2022A secret affair. A scandalous sex-filled trial. A tell-all novel. If it’s any consolation to Tiger...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom: The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth by Charles Beauclerk
September 11, 2022I would have thought Shakespeare in Love might have advanced our understanding of the authorship debate,...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The American Girl by Monika Fagerholm
September 1, 2022It's a radioactive fairy tale, with adults known only by nicknames (the Black Sheep, the baroness)...
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Art
The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
August 22, 2022Oliver won’t socialize. He won’t even speak. He simply spends his days wrapped in his obsession,...
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Fiction Reviews
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
August 20, 2022For Last Night in Twisted River is the work of a seasoned tale-teller, a writer who...