Stories By Julia Braun Kessler
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Fiction Reviews
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...
Biography
The Bolter by Frances Osborne
April 1, 2025She introduces a woman who may have upset those around her by her promiscuity, even nymphomania,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Manhattan: School for Scriveners
March 29, 2025For me, it was the people themselves, their intellectual inclinations, their sophisticated speech, their crisp wit...
France
All Our Worldly Goods by Irene Nemirovsky
March 19, 2025How might we doubt that any long dead, wholly forgotten writer, who has re-emerged and within...
Fiction Reviews
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
March 9, 2025Such a pity Mary Ann Shaffer is not around to enjoy her celebrity! Shaffer died in...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia by Tim Tsouliadis
March 9, 2025Readers of faint heart beware when embarking upon this superb work of history. So many stories...




