Stories By Julia Braun Kessler
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Books
Murdering Miss Austen
June 21, 2022Jane Austen, whose sharp tongue barely left her cheek during her short lifetime, and, whose caustic...
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Fiction Reviews
Fire in the Blood by Irène Némirovsky
June 15, 2022Silvio’s tale proceeds to unravel the neighborhood secrets, as he uncovers them with a skill that...
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Music
The House That George Built by Wilfrid Sheed
June 12, 2022And in recreating social history, what a star-studded cast he lines up to perform for us!...
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Biography
The Orientalist: Solving The Mystery of A Strange and Dangerous Life – by Tom Reiss
May 21, 2022Admirers of a haunting gem of a novel called, ALI & NINO, a work that seemed...
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Books
Book Review: Naples Declared: A Walk Around The Bay by Benjamin Taylor
May 6, 2022Considering how “casual” the work is in its approach, you could, I suppose, call it a...
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Fiction Reviews
All Whom I Have Loved by Aharon Appelfeld
October 16, 2021Aharon Appelfeld’s new novel, All Whom I Have Loved is indeed a riveting, if ominous tale,...
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Art
Book Review: Some of My Lives: A Scrapbook Memoir by Rosamond Bernier
September 5, 2021Rosamond’s very early experiences with the great and famous were connected with her father’s love for...
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Books
Book Review: Literary Brooklyn by Evan Hughes
August 5, 2021In his new history of the borough’s development you can virtually trace the emergence of America...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards
August 31, 2020If anything can be said with certainty about our fickle reading public, it is that they...
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Art
Book Review: The Art Detective by Philip Mould
July 24, 2020Yet another of his discoveries turns out to be a lost watercolor by one of America’s...
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