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Reviews & Essays

The Day My Brain Exploded

A memoir of a mind, ravaged and rebuilt.

 

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The Painted Girls

A novel of Belle  Époque Paris, through the eyes of a dancer-turned-studio-muse.

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Heads in Beds

Room Service Confidential: a hotelier's tell-all.

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The Pinecone

How an English church was transformed into a work of highly personal art.

 

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Travels with Epicurus

A Mediterranean quest combines with a philosophic take on aging.

 

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The Barbarous Years

A century of ambition and bloodshed in Colonial America.

 

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Compulsive Reading: Young Adult Fiction in 2012

A  reader looks back over a trailblazing year in novels for teens.

 

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My Autobiography

The comedic icon of the silent film era unspools the drama of a suitably dramatic life -- in his own voice.

 

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The Last Dragonslayer

A familiar heroic formula gets a quirky twist from the author of The Eyre Affair.

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The Paris Deadline

A mystery of the City of Light in the Jazz Age.

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The Missing Ink: The Lost Art of Handwriting

A novelist's defense of paper and pen.

 

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Life Goes On

A novel of Germany during the rise of the Nazis -- and banned by Hitler's regime.

 

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Visionary Births

Three authors of fantasy and science-fiction for young readers take on the future of motherhood.

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Lazarus Is Dead

A biblical miracle is recast as an episode in the story of a long and unusual friendship.

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The Noir Forties

There was victory in Europe and the Pacific; but the big screen told the story of an anxious nation.

 

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