All posts tagged "twentieth century"
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History
The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley
June 18, 2020James Bradley doesn't like Theodore Roosevelt. Let's get that clear from the get-go. Nor does he...
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Fiction Reviews
Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow
June 8, 2020Sing in me, Muse quotes Homer (the original one). "Jacqueline, my muse, I speak to you...
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Biography
The Bolter by Frances Osborne
June 5, 2020She introduces a woman who may have upset those around her by her promiscuity, even nymphomania,...
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Art
Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920: Art, Life, & Culture of the Russian Silver Age by John E. Bowlt
May 27, 2020Writers of the caliber of Anton Chekov, Alexsander Blok and Anna Akhmatova, visionary artists like Mikhail...
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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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After Image
American Mythologies: Grant Wood at the RNC
April 18, 2020But, the painting tells us, to impose order is also to fictionalize, to distort. It’s a...
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Biography
Book Review: Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan
April 18, 2020The course of Curtis’ campaign to document the lives and life style of the Native American...
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Great Britain
After the Victorians by A.N. Wilson
January 14, 2020Like its predecessor, The Victorians, this book is a portrait of an age, rather than a...
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Biography
Book Review: George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
January 19, 2012George Frost Kennan was one of the most influential of all American diplomats, as well as...
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Books
Book Review: René Blum and the Ballets Russes by Judith Chazin-Bennahum
July 11, 2011All of Blum’s many accomplishments were bracketed between the anti-Semitic turmoil of the Dreyfus Affair that...
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