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These are compelling stories about the trials and tribulations of dynamic, working-class characters.
Religion is false, unscientific, and morally dubious, and any discussion that doesn’t take that as its starting point will end up going astray.
An author with a deep affinity for and knowledge of movies and how they’re honored tells us all about Oscar.
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.
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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