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An Italian Wife
Ann Hood’s latest novel is a series of vignettes focusing on more than the title character. The book visits the…
The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis
Polish biologist Rudolf Weigl developed the first typhus vaccine, made from carefully cultivated colonies of lice, in Lwów, Poland before…
The Wherewithal: A Novel in Verse
Editors' choice
1968 finds Henryk Stanislaw Wyrzykowski hiding out as a clerk in the basement of a San Francisco welfare office. Secure…
A Guide for the Perplexed
The ancient Jewish scholar, Maimonides (the Rambam), who lived in the Middle Ages, wrote The Guide for the Perplexed, a…
Archangel
The short stories in Archangel, set between the late 19th century and the start of World War II, illuminate human…
The UnAmericans
Families are really quite an enigma. The wife or husband one meets and perceives in one way either changes dramatically…
Saint Monkey
Two best friends, Audrey Martin and Caroline Wallace, are the best of friends in Mt. Sterling, a small Kentucky town…
Brewster
Jon, Ray and Frank are high school buddies coming of age in the late 1960s in a small town in…
The Inheritor’s Powder: A Cautionary Tale of Poison, Betrayal and Greed
In 1833, in the village of Plumstead, elderly George Bodle, along with all those in his household, falls ill immediately…
Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century 1900-1910
One of my favorite digital galleries on the New York Public Library website has always been the Buttolph Menu Collection.…
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