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Thomas Filbin

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

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

By: Thomas Filbin Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: A History of France, Atlantic Monthly Press, John Julius Norwich, Thomas Filbin

Book Review: “Blown” – A Madcap Journey

Blown is a short and engrossing mystery novel that also stands as a morality play, an ethical fable that suggests that our own selves are perhaps the greatest mystery of all.

By: Thomas Filbin Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Blown, fiction, Grove Atlantic Black Kat, Mark Haskell Smith, Thomas Filbin

Book Review: “Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts” — Pages of Glory

De Hamel’s history is a detective story, a love story, and a revelation of the nourishment to be found in celebrated libraries and collections.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Christopher de Hamel, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts, Thomas Filbin

Book Review: Richard A. Posner — A Rare Judge Who Tells Us How He Really Feels

Why didn’t a legal mind as brilliant as Richard Posner’s get to the Supreme Court? One suspects his candor and bluntness.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Antonin Scalia, Harvard University Press, Richard A. Posner, Supreme Court, The Federal Judiciary: Strengths and Weaknesses, Thomas Filbin

Book Review: Supreme Democracy? How Supreme Court Justices are Chosen

The history and process of judicial selection — dispassionately detailed.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Oxford University Press, Richard Davis, Supreme Court, Supreme Democracy: The End of Elitism in Supreme Court Nominations, Thomas Filbin

Book Review: “The Hunger Saint” — Courage in a World of Pain

Olivia Kate Cerrone tells this story in raw, blunt terms, in a naturalistic mode worthy of Zola.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Bordighera Press, Olivia Kate Cerrone, The Hunger Saint, Thomas Filbin

Book Review: “Four Princes” — Sixteenth Century Carnage

A historian’s view of the tumultuous world of early sixteenth century Europe, an age of exploration, revolt, and religious upheaval.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Charles V, Four Princes, Francis I, Henry VIII, John Julius Norwich, Suleiman the Magnificent, The Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe, Thomas Filbin

Fuse Book Review: Novelist Jay McInerney — Nimble Chronicler of America’s Upper Class

Jay McInerney’s characters may live on exotic mixed drinks and fine wines, but they still suffer moral dilemmas and have consciences they cannot silence.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: American fiction, Bright, Jay McInerney, knopf, New York City, Precious Days, Thomas Filbin

Fuse Book Review: “A Hero of France” — An Insider’s Guide to the French Resistance

Alan Furst’s books are spy thrillers infused with a crisp, rather than a flowery, literary sensibility.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: A Hero of France, Alan Furst, France, French Resistance, historical fiction, Thomas Filbin, World War II

Book Review: “John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit” — A Sympathetic Look at a New England Aristocrat

James Traub has admirably captured the man inside the public figure, giving us a complex view of a typical New England grandee.

By: Thomas Filbin Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Basic Books, James Traub, John Quincy Adams, John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit, Thomas Filbin

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