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One must be impressed by memoirist Matthew Spender, who refuses to descend into resentment or anything resembling self-pity despite a very strange childhood.
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Fred Waitzkin’s beautiful, sad book will stay with me forever.
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Although Anthony Powell’s stock has gone down since he died in 2000, I hope that this new biography will spark interest in A Dance to the Music of Time.
Read MoreWe become increasingly aware that we are in the mind of a doctor who has taught himself to observe carefully, who has an amazingly strong will to survive, and who chooses not to waste precious time and energy on anger or revenge.
Read MoreTony Judt is an American treasure, in time he may prove as great to our country as George Orwell and Albert Camus are to theirs.
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I hope this centennial will inspire readers to immerse themselves in this enormously important, rich, and vibrant work.
Read MoreThis book captures — beautifully — poet John Ashbery’s youth and dreams and struggles.
Read MoreJudging by the trailer for The Great Gatsby, it looks as if director Baz Luhrmann’s habitual excess will overwhelm the lyrical beauty and subtle power of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s prose.
Read MoreTwo books — one nonfiction, the other fiction — that deal with Jewish history.
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David Greenberg has brought to life not only one unusual man but also the tumultuous racial history of our country in the second half of the 20th century and into the early years of the 21st century.
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