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/Mary Balogh’s Survivors’ Club novels are romances, which means they tell hopeful stories about people whose struggles end happily. Why should that optimism earn them such disdain?
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Mary Balogh’s Survivors’ Club novels are romances, which means they tell hopeful stories about people whose struggles end happily. Why should that optimism earn them such disdain?
Read MoreDid an unconventional Berkshires beauty provide the inspiration for Herman Melville to write his great masterpiece? A new book thinks it would be lovely to think so.
Read MoreIn an era replete with talented young competition winners, Lucas Debargue, who placed fourth in the 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition, stands out.
Read MoreThe glittering Bourbon king who lost his head to the Revolution gets a sumptuous newly-expanded biography
Read MoreThe long and constantly-unfinished process of democracy is given a sprawling examination in James Kloppenberg's new book.
Read MoreThe Second World War closes in on the two families bravely struggling to keep Cavendon Hall alive.
Read MoreIn 1943, American President Franklin Roosevelt faced the strong-willed rivalry of his own nominal ally, Winston Churchill
Read MoreThese three Shostakovich chamber works span the composer's whole career, and together they constitute a musical self-portrait with few equals.
Read MoreThe mercurial, often infuriating Pacific Theater commander Douglas MacArthur is the subject of Walter Borneman's terrific new book
Read MoreCameron Carpenter is virtuosic, effervescent, totally in command of his pipes and sometimes quirky enough to make you rethink the piece from core principles. But does that approach work in Bach?
Read MoreLara Feigel's new book delves into the landscape of the apocalypse: Germany in the immediate wake of Allied victory.
Read MoreNovelist and essayist Jenny Diski faithfully chronicled her own dying from cancer. A new book collects her last and greatest literary work.
Read MoreA gripping new book looks at a quartet of the worst Nazi war criminals to stand trial.
Read MoreSteven Osborne takes on unexpected repertoire: the ascetic Morton Feldman and the extreme George Crumb.
Read MoreA generous new book describes the history - and the momentous potential - of genetic research
Read MoreIn fantasy illustrator Todd Lockwood's debut novel, a young woman from a family of dragon-breeders faces an ancient evil
Read MoreA new biography tells the fascinating story of anarchist poet Lola Ridge, long overlooked by a critical culture that considered politics antithetical to literature. Laura Tanenbaum reviews.
Read MoreA fascinating new book reveals the wonders that are visible once humans stop thinking of fish as merely food with fins.
Read MoreA thoughtful new book about Victorian concepts of space, nation, and mobility reminds us that our own world is vulnerable to unraveling as we move from here to wherever’s next.
Read MoreSteve Danziger talks with Christina Hills, a "cruciverbalist" translator from the controversial Oulipo school.
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