Stories By Elinor Teele
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Anthropology
Light of the Moon by Luane Rice
October 23, 2021Femi-lit doesn’t make as many headlines as its younger sister, but it shares certain familial traits....
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Movies
The Big Country: How the West Finally Won
October 4, 2021It’s not a classic in the sense of Casablanca or Citizen Kane, but it’s a kind...
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Biography
Book Review: Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
August 5, 2021The 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
August 1, 2021We 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
July 31, 2021So 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
July 17, 2021Neumeyer 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
July 16, 2020Pity 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
July 13, 2020A 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
July 10, 2020I 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
July 1, 2020It's a radioactive fairy tale, with adults known only by nicknames (the Black Sheep, the baroness)...