Stories By Elinor Teele
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Fiction Reviews
Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 by Annie Proulx
December 4, 2023Things are never fine just they way they are in Annie Proulx’s new collection of Wyoming...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Résistance by Agnès Humbert
December 3, 2023The early resistors soon discover that the Nazis don’t view their activities with similar lightheartedness. Oblivious...
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Balkans
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišic
December 3, 2023Yet it is no accident that Aleksandar begins with an account of death, nor is it...
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Fiction Reviews
The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III
December 1, 2023Of course, the reason the affable Dubus was feeding strippers $20 from his writing fellowship becomes...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Dancer Within: Intimate Conversations with Great Dancers by Rose Eichenbaum
December 1, 2023In fact, the only one who doesn’t fall in with this uplifting sentiment is, God bless...
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Fiction Reviews
The Count of Concord by Nicholas Delbanco
November 30, 2023Sir Benjamin Thompson, a.k.a. Count Rumford, is probably most familiar to modern ears as the inventor...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz
November 29, 2023Gold, jewels – that was what the new world promised and that was what the Spanish...
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Great Britain
O Beloved Kids: Rudyard Kipling’s Letters to his Children
November 29, 2023An Imperialist, a warmonger, blind to what was in front of him, the critics say. A...
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Fiction Reviews
Odd Hours by Dean Koontz
November 26, 2023Ogres are like onions, the great philosopher Shrek once said. Onions have layers, ogres have layers....
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Fiction Reviews
The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir
November 26, 2023If you’re going to mix brains with bosoms, however, you have to be very careful stylistically....