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Book Review: “A History of France” — Outsized Heroes on Horseback

In all of his books, John Julius Norwich remembered that history is a story.

There are resemblances to Virginia Woolf in Helen Dunmore’s awareness that much of family life lies in what is not said as much as in what is said.

Bill Marx April 1, 2020 at 11:11 pm on Arts Commentary: Pestilence on Stage, Part One — Karel Čapek’s”The White Plague”Damn, I missed the production of R.U.R. -- I assume it was a student production? Yes, The White Plague is...
Harvey Blume April 1, 2020 at 10:10 pm on Visual Arts Review: The Art of Kara Walker — A Mix of Cozy Charm and Historic HorrorSuperb review, well written and illuminating.
Gerald Peary April 1, 2020 at 8:59 pm on Arts Commentary: Pestilence on Stage, Part One — Karel Čapek’s”The White Plague”I recently read Capek's War With the Newts, certainly a peculiar book but as klunky as what you describe above....
Marion Freedman-gurspan April 1, 2020 at 5:49 pm on Arts Commentary: Big Art — Big GreedThe daily free programming is not to be sneezed at. It sometimes has well-known performers and sometimes offers a chance...
Thomas Clifton March 29, 2020 at 11:54 am on Book Review: “Where the Crawdads Sing” — Are the Rural Poor Noble Savages?I was generally confused, to this day, why people are raving about this book. It was literary trash.