Stories By Julia Braun Kessler
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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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Non-Fiction Reviews
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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Books
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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Fiction Reviews
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...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Bolter by Frances Osborne
December 22, 2023She 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
December 19, 2023For 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
December 10, 2023How might we doubt that any long dead, wholly forgotten writer, who has re-emerged and within...