Stories By Elinor Teele
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China
Daughter of Heaven by Nigel Cawthorne
November 13, 2023In a shocking and vaguely incestuous move, she seduced T’ai-tsung’s son, the Emperor Kao-tsung, and from...
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Fiction Reviews
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
November 9, 2023This book isn’t a book, it’s a jazz piece, a series of improvisations on Díaz’s country,...
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Fiction Reviews
The Quiet Girl by Peter Høeg
November 8, 2023A thriller is often a race, but without the understanding of exactly why this girl is...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett
October 30, 2023The universe appears to have cheated Rupert Everett. By rights, he belongs to the Edwardian age,...
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Anthropology
Light of the Moon by Luane Rice
April 17, 2023Femi-lit doesn’t make as many headlines as its younger sister, but it shares certain familial traits....
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Movies & TV
The Big Country: How the West Finally Won
March 30, 2023It’s not a classic in the sense of Casablanca or Citizen Kane, but it’s a kind...
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Books
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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Books
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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Non-Fiction Reviews
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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Non-Fiction Reviews
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...