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Book Review: “A Life of My Own” — Reserved to a Fault

Claire Tomalin narrates her story with a prototypically English stiff upper lip, and a reticence about the personal.

Bill Marx August 3, 2020 at 10:17 am on Book Review: “The Atomic Bomb on My Back” — Witness to ApocalypseThis anniversary should also send people to Robert Jay Lifton and Greg Michell's indispensable 1995 book Hiroshima in America: Fifty...
Bill Marx August 2, 2020 at 9:08 pm on Film Review: CREEM on Top — The Story of America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll MagazineYou are right -- fixed. Thanks ... got my loggerheads confused.
Milo Miles August 2, 2020 at 7:54 pm on Film Review: CREEM on Top — The Story of America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll MagazineSpeaking of loggerheads, it looks to me like Lester B is the guy on the right.
Ben Kissinger August 1, 2020 at 12:24 pm on Rethinking the Repertoire #6: Felix Mendelssohn’s “Die erste Walpurgisnacht”It,s good you are trying to hear Mendelssohn's music with fresh ears, (and text-reading eyes) but I think you have...
Gerald Peary July 31, 2020 at 10:52 am on Film Review: Want More Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place? Stir-Crazy 6Dear Alan: What a nice letter to know that someone has actually been reading me and appreciating my thoughts for...