All posts tagged "1930s"
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Fiction Reviews
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
June 16, 2020Even so, to hold The Lacuna in one’s hand, to read it, is to witness and...
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Architecture
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
June 11, 2020Mawer’s The Glass Room is a genuine intellectual achievement—a breath-taking story of love and its loss,...
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History
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein
June 11, 2020It was on the level of popular culture that the vital "center" of life in the...
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History
The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia by Tim Tsouliadis
May 18, 2020Readers of faint heart beware when embarking upon this superb work of history. So many stories...
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History
Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II by Sarah Byrn Rickman
May 15, 2020They were also a PR dream. Initially working for her future husband, Robert Love, the young...
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Economics
American-Made by Nick Taylor
May 10, 2020Meanwhile, walls of buildings were rising, mud roads were being paved, library books were being delivered...
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History
Notes From Italy: Looking Back at Mussolini
May 1, 2020Mussolini was not the only dictator of his time. In his Europe, in a time of...
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Biography
Book Review: Diaries by George Orwell
April 19, 2020Europe had yet to recover from the First World War and the Allied peoples were at...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: M, #45
April 18, 2020A child murderer is terrorizing the city. The police hunt is intense, but fruitless. So the...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Untouchables, #28
April 17, 2020In the midst of a dinner party in his honor, Capone (Robert De Niro) takes out...
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