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American Sucker – by David Denby
October 16, 2021The emotional trauma exposed a vulnerability that lay beneath all outward signs of success: a career...
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The Story of AC/DC by Susan Masino
October 16, 2021Rock biographies, particularly of bands, are an odd subgenre. With an individual singer or instrumentalist, the...
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About My Sisters – by Debra Ginsberg
October 13, 2021Ginsberg writes in vivid fly-on-the-wall detail about the complex relationships she has with each of her...
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A Chance Meeting: by Rachel Cohen
October 13, 2021In this, her debut book, Harvard graduate Rachel Cohen weaves a literary tapestry encompassing the lives...
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Orchestras, Oboes and Orgies
October 13, 2021"I was honest about my own behavior and that of others, yet stopped short of revealing...
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An Interview With Biographer Ann Seaman
October 13, 2021"The three were kidnapped at gunpoint at the American Atheist headquarters in Austin, Texas on a...
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An Interview With Freud Biographer Peter D. Kramer
October 10, 2021"In a brief biography, a writer needs to set himself a limited question. I chose this...
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An Interview with Rebecca Goldstein, author of “Betraying Spinoza”
October 6, 2021"The issue that animated his life and his thought was that of religious intolerance. The Jews...
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An Interview With Biographer James Connor
October 6, 2021"This means that we are a people who now live in that shadow world of quasi-existence....
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Beyond the Balkans – Eric Ambler and the British Espionage Novel, 1936-1940
October 5, 2021Eric Ambler (1909-1998) was one of the foremost architects of espionage fiction as it exists today....