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Murdering Miss Austen
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A Place for Three Seasons: Crested Butte
February 16, 2025Let us be clear on one thing: physically fit people tend to get more out of...
Notes From Italy: Some Old Envoys
February 16, 2025Counts who stank of garlic–as did the whole country–had sponged on him for seats in his...
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
February 16, 2025The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, informally known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is a span...
City of Fire By Robert Ellis
February 15, 2025There are red herrings aplenty, but once finished reading the novel I’m left with a sense...
The Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson
February 15, 2025This long, well documented book by Rick Atkinson is one of the best accounts of any...
Gentlemen and Players
February 15, 2025Yet it is the amateur, the eccentric and the outsider who plays the hero in the...
Notes From Italy: The Oversized Embassy
February 15, 2025Nor, it seems, do Americans get out of their diplomatic fortress the way they used to....




