Stories By Julia Braun Kessler
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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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Fiction Reviews
The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
July 5, 2020A startling achievement in a first novel, the work seems to have already touched a chord...
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Biography
Churchill by Paul Johnson
June 18, 2020And 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
June 5, 2020She 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
June 2, 2020For 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
May 25, 2020How 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
May 19, 2020Such a pity Mary Ann Shaffer is not around to enjoy her celebrity! Shaffer died in...
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