historical fiction

Book Review: “A Hero of France” — An Insider’s Guide to the French Resistance

June 16, 2016
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Alan Furst’s books are spy thrillers infused with a crisp, rather than a flowery, literary sensibility.

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Book Review: “The Wake” — When England Stopped Being English

August 25, 2015
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More than a mere novel, The Wake is really a medieval epic poem to an English way of life that would be erased forever.

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Book Review: “Counternarratives” — Stories About History’s Metamorphosis

August 5, 2015
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What John Keene has given us in Counternarratives is fearless fiction.

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Book Review: “The Star of Istanbul” — A Literary Historical Thriller

May 21, 2014
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Robert Olen Butler chose his protagonist wisely. Christopher Marlowe Cobb is a man of both intellect and physicality, of thought and action.

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Book Review: “The Good Lord Bird” — History As a Morality Tale, With Wings

February 5, 2014
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There is more than one way to tell the truth, “The Good Lord Bird” reminds us again and again, and many reasons to cloak it in humor.

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