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An Interview With Novelist Richard Ford
July 24, 2024"Nobody writes good things about New Jersey at all. And I thought, well, maybe that would...
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Stripping the Town of Tinsel
July 24, 2024Hilary de Vries The dot com slump, a shift in journalistic standards in the celebrity-driven Hollywood...
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Beyond the Balkans – Eric Ambler and the British Espionage Novel, 1936-1940
July 23, 2024Eric Ambler (1909-1998) was one of the foremost architects of espionage fiction as it exists today....
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The Big Country: How the West Finally Won
July 22, 2024It’s not a classic in the sense of Casablanca or Citizen Kane, but it’s a kind...
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Borges: A Poet’s Quest for Simplicity
July 21, 2024Simplicity requires oneness. If you want to be someone, you are two and you are not...
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Book Review: Literary Brooklyn by Evan Hughes
May 28, 2024In his new history of the borough’s development you can virtually trace the emergence of America...
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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...
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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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Book Review: Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark by Brian Kellow
May 24, 2024So if she wasn’t pleasant, what was Pauline Kael? She was earthy; she was tough; she...
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Art Review: Charles Dickens at 200, The Morgan Library and Museum
May 22, 2024Dickens’ novels probed the social ills of Victorian England in order to create unforgettable images of...