Book Review: Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
January 30, 2023
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Book Review: Blue Nights by Joan Didion
January 26, 2023We learn that Quintana Roo was adopted, a beautiful precocious girl with hair “bleached by the...
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Book Review: Cabin: Two Brothers, a Dream and Five Acres in Maine by Lou Ureneck
January 26, 2023In September 2007, Lou Ureneck, a 56-year-old journalism professor at Boston University, was hospitalized for atrial...
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Book Review: Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark by Brian Kellow
January 26, 2023So if she wasn’t pleasant, what was Pauline Kael? She was earthy; she was tough; she...
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Book Review: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
January 13, 2023In this profound and spirited work, Pinker champions the civilizing process that, according to his detailed...
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Book Review: Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris
January 8, 2023Woolf spent much of her life trying to free herself from the grasp of the past,...
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Book Review: Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer
January 4, 2023Neumeyer responded with scholarly esprit, but he was hard put to equal his partner’s digressions. The...
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Book Review: Carthage Must Be Destroyed by Richard Miles
December 29, 2022Carthage, however, was not merely conquered by Rome. As the title of Miles' book asserts, Carthage...