All posts tagged "twentieth century"
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History
The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley
August 17, 2022James 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
August 5, 2022Sing 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
July 31, 2022She 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
July 21, 2022Writers 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
March 26, 2022Europe 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
March 25, 2022But, 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
March 8, 2022The 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
October 13, 2021Like 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
August 25, 2021George 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
October 14, 2020All of Blum’s many accomplishments were bracketed between the anti-Semitic turmoil of the Dreyfus Affair that...
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