All posts tagged "1930s"
Fiction Reviews
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
April 8, 2025Mawer’s The Glass Room is a genuine intellectual achievement—a breath-taking story of love and its loss,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein
April 8, 2025It was on the level of popular culture that the vital "center" of life in the...
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II by Sarah Byrn Rickman
March 2, 2025They were also a PR dream. Initially working for her future husband, Robert Love, the young...
Non-Fiction Reviews
American-Made by Nick Taylor
February 24, 2025Meanwhile, walls of buildings were rising, mud roads were being paved, library books were being delivered...




