Stories By Julia Braun Kessler

Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Naples Declared: A Walk Around The Bay by Benjamin Taylor
April 30, 2026Considering how “casual” the work is in its approach, you could, I suppose, call it a...
Fiction Reviews
All Whom I Have Loved by Aharon Appelfeld
December 6, 2025Aharon Appelfeld’s new novel, All Whom I Have Loved is indeed a riveting, if ominous tale,...

Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Some of My Lives: A Scrapbook Memoir by Rosamond Bernier
October 30, 2025Rosamond’s very early experiences with the great and famous were connected with her father’s love for...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Literary Brooklyn by Evan Hughes
September 28, 2025In his new history of the borough’s development you can virtually trace the emergence of America...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards
July 6, 2025If anything can be said with certainty about our fickle reading public, it is that they...
Art
Book Review: The Art Detective by Philip Mould
May 28, 2025Yet another of his discoveries turns out to be a lost watercolor by one of America’s...
Italy
The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
May 6, 2025A startling achievement in a first novel, the work seems to have already touched a chord...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Churchill by Paul Johnson
April 16, 2025And Johnson reminds us of the memorable words he spoke after France capitulated: “Let us therefore...






