Stories By Julia Braun Kessler
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The House That George Built by Wilfrid Sheed
February 6, 2025And in recreating social history, what a star-studded cast he lines up to perform for us!...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Orientalist: Solving The Mystery of A Strange and Dangerous Life – by Tom Reiss
January 14, 2025Admirers of a haunting gem of a novel called, ALI & NINO, a work that seemed...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Naples Declared: A Walk Around The Bay by Benjamin Taylor
December 30, 2024Considering 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
August 1, 2024Aharon 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
June 26, 2024Rosamond’s very early experiences with the great and famous were connected with her father’s love for...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Literary Brooklyn by Evan Hughes
May 28, 2024In 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
March 19, 2024If anything can be said with certainty about our fickle reading public, it is that they...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Art Detective by Philip Mould
February 12, 2024Yet another of his discoveries turns out to be a lost watercolor by one of America’s...
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Mathematics
The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
January 23, 2024A startling achievement in a first novel, the work seems to have already touched a chord...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Churchill by Paul Johnson
January 6, 2024And Johnson reminds us of the memorable words he spoke after France capitulated: “Let us therefore...