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Murdering Miss Austen
November 12, 2023Jane Austen, whose sharp tongue barely left her cheek during her short lifetime, and, whose caustic...
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Book Review: The Poems of Jesus Christ Translated by Willis Barnstone
September 27, 2023As Barnstone notes in his introduction, Aramaic has verse forms that are difficult to render in...
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Book Review: Naples Declared: A Walk Around The Bay by Benjamin Taylor
September 22, 2023Considering how “casual” the work is in its approach, you could, I suppose, call it a...
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Book Review: Harriet by Elizabeth Jenkins
September 18, 2023Her measured and elegant style does indeed evoke Austen, and the grace of the writing makes...
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Trailer Watch: Les Misérables
September 15, 2023This is, in showbiz terms, the textbook definition of "a big deal." After all this anticipation,...
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Book Review: The Second World War by Antony Beevor
September 4, 2023Hitler’s Final Solution was not a separate campaign of mass murder, parallel to the fighting on...
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Book Review: Mike Wallace, A Life by Peter Rader
September 1, 2023He suffered, too, the tragic loss of his oldest child, Peter, who disappeared while backpacking across...
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Book Review: In One Person by John Irving
August 30, 2023And therein shines the beauty of Irving’s tale, who we used to be as a society...