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The Accursed
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Princeton, 1905. President (of the university, not yet the US) Woodrow Wilson works up to apoplexy in his Herculean struggle…
The Stockholm Octavo
The Stockholm Octavo is set in 18th-century Stockholm against the background of the last years of Sweden’s Golden Age and…
The Cove
Ron Rash’s new novel has all the elements I particularly enjoy in fiction: the story is set in the North…
Restoration
Restoration looks compassionately at the life of a young English expatriate who, in the decade preceding World War II, impulsively…
The Song of Achilles
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Whether you are fascinated by the history and the people of The Iliad, or you’re looking for an achingly good…
The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures
Frankie Pratt’s mother gives her a scrapbook as a high school graduation gift. She finds her late father’s typewriter in…
The Sisters Brothers
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Speaking as someone who won’t read Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove because it’s a Western, won’t see the evidently delicious Coen…
The Collector of Worlds: A Novel of Sir Richard Francis Burton
Sir Richard Francis Burton — British military officer, spy, and gifted linguist — has been the subject of multiple biographies,…
The Bloodstone Papers
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This story about an Anglo-Indian family, and the bloodstone ring that was stolen from them during the last days of…
Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel
Edmund White uses the life of Stephen Crane, author of The Red Badge of Courage, to present this interesting novel-within-a-novel.…
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