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Borges: A Poet’s Quest for Simplicity
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Book Review: Good in a Crisis by Margaret Overton
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Book Review: The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
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Book Review: Some of My Lives: A Scrapbook Memoir by Rosamond Bernier
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Book Review: George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
October 19, 2025George Frost Kennan was one of the most influential of all American diplomats, as well as...
Book Review: The Good, The Bad and the Multiplex: What’s Wrong With Modern Movies? by Mark Kermode
October 17, 2025His opinions, though held intensely and vocally, are often unpredictable: he has long maintained The Exorcist...
Book Review: The Hillary Effect by Taylor Marsh
October 13, 2025There may not be space in a blog post to let the reader weigh the words...
Book Review: Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
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