Stories By Julia Braun Kessler
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Fiction Reviews
The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
September 6, 2022A startling achievement in a first novel, the work seems to have already touched a chord...
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Biography
Churchill by Paul Johnson
August 16, 2022And Johnson reminds us of the memorable words he spoke after France capitulated: “Let us therefore...
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Biography
The Bolter by Frances Osborne
July 31, 2022She introduces a woman who may have upset those around her by her promiscuity, even nymphomania,...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Manhattan: School for Scriveners
July 30, 2022For me, it was the people themselves, their intellectual inclinations, their sophisticated speech, their crisp wit...
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Fiction Reviews
All Our Worldly Goods by Irene Nemirovsky
July 20, 2022How might we doubt that any long dead, wholly forgotten writer, who has re-emerged and within...
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Fiction Reviews
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
July 9, 2022Such a pity Mary Ann Shaffer is not around to enjoy her celebrity! Shaffer died in...
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History
The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia by Tim Tsouliadis
July 9, 2022Readers of faint heart beware when embarking upon this superb work of history. So many stories...
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Biography
The Man Who Made Lists by Joshua Kendall
June 27, 2022By the end of that lecture, Roget had concluded that one of the causes of “the...
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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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