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Many of the short stories in Two Nurses, Smoking are genuinely accomplished, and worth investigating.
A young Hasidic woman addicted to Internet porn? Oy vey, who knew?
This coffee table book scan of women’s history is visually striking and consistently informative.
A superb new translation in one volume of the two Chéri novellas, regarded as Colette’s masterwork.
Poet Helena Minton deserves our attention; her verse is grounded in a close observation of nature and a love of language.
Emmanuel Carrère’s novel powerfully satirizes intellectual pretension but at the expense of engaging storytelling.
At its best, Steve Reich’s Conversations is illuminating and engaging, an honest discussion of the creative process by one of the major composers of our times.
A lot of history is jammed into this book, but the author manages to ruminate in an informative and engrossing way on 50-plus years of pop music.
Historian Katherine Harvey’s well-researched and lively book shows that in the Middle Ages lust had its way. Big time.
Book Review: “Dinners With Ruth” — Always Nice But Rarely Incisive
Like a Hallmark movie, Dinners with Ruth is an engaging and entertaining story, with episodes of great pathos. It is an upbeat, easy-to-read gift book, which is undoubtedly what its publisher intended.
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