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Let us hope that today’s revelations will be taken more seriously than charges of sexual harassment and assault were back in 1993.
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For many years now, the Francis Davis Jazz Poll has collected brief lists of important jazz figures who passed in the previous year.
Read MoreOnce and For All asserts the value of Delmore Schwartz’s provocative and multifaceted literary legacy.
Read MoreOnly months ago, developments in the Pollock Matter controversies made news around the world (See past Fuse Flash and Anonymous Sources). But the Nov. 28 International Foundation for Art Research [IFAR] symposium, “Are They Pollocks? What Science Tells Us About the Matter Paintings,” drew relatively scant media notice, even though it had been billed by…
Read MoreA Replacement Life explores what America means to Russian immigrants whose cunning and sophistication often lead them into trouble.
Read MoreUsing her family’s history as a springboard, Julia Franck has created exemplary figures forced to navigate the treacherous shoals of her country’s history.
Read Moreby Gary Schwartz It is not too late to commemorate the 400th anniversary, earlier this year, of one of the great inter-civilizational gestures of early modern times. On January 3rd, 1608, a delegation of Discalced Carmelite monks, arriving in Isfahan from Rome via Kraków, presented to the Moslem Shah Abbas I one of the most…
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It’s a work that shifts gears often, which is not in itself a bad idea for a book about a famed shape-shifter.
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Author Reconsideration: The A, B, and C of Sue Grafton
The conveniently tidy endings do turn killing into an entertainment. They also allow us to briefly believe in redemption. And that is not the vainest of hopes.
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