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An Interview With Biographer James Connor
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Beyond the Balkans – Eric Ambler and the British Espionage Novel, 1936-1940
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Book Review: The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
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Book Review: George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
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Book Review: Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
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Book Review: Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries by Peter Conrad
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Book Review: Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
May 28, 2024The happiness was not to last. More Scrooge than Bob Cratchit in some respects, he was...
Book Review: Cabin: Two Brothers, a Dream and Five Acres in Maine by Lou Ureneck
May 25, 2024In September 2007, Lou Ureneck, a 56-year-old journalism professor at Boston University, was hospitalized for atrial...
Book Review: Blue Nights by Joan Didion
May 24, 2024We learn that Quintana Roo was adopted, a beautiful precocious girl with hair “bleached by the...
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