All Book Reviews
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The Forger's Spell
How a second-rate painter fooled Europe and the Nazis.
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For the Love of Animals
A history of the animal protection movement tells of the early crusaders.
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"The Last Island"
A poet asks: How do you love without losing yourself?
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"The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society"
"The Jane Austen Book Club" meets "84 Charing Cross Road"
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Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love
When immigrants turn to food for solace in their new land.
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"Art in America"
A sweet, scruffy antihero uses drama to heal a town.
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"How Fiction Works"
America's top literary critic shares the secrets of the books he loves.
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"Central Park in the Dark"
Marie Winn writes of the moths, slugs, bats, and other creatures she encounters in nightly patrols of Central Park.
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"Distracted"
How to bring focus, awareness, and judgment back to our multitasking lives.
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"Where the Wild Things Were"
A world free from predators would not be idyllic.
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‘What Was Lost’
A dark, thrilling debut novel about a girl detective who goes missing.
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'When We Get to Surf City'
Bob Greene lives out a dream traveling with a 1960s surf band.
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"How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone"
An imaginative debut novel spins fractured tales of Bosnia.
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"America Eats: On the Road with the WPA"
A writer takes her own journey to update the WPA's guide to America's eating habits.
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Why I Came West
Nature writer Rick Bass becomes an advocate.
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'Empires of the Sea'
A dramatic retelling of the 16th-century clash of Christian and Muslim armies.
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Universe of Stone
A history of Chartres, "the most perfect cathedral ever created."
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Netherland
In the chaos of upended lives after 9/11, a cricket connection is made.
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What the Chinese must not forget
Mao may be gone but a legacy of repression lives on.
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Keeping up with the Jameses
A 'House of Wits' that dazzled even as it disappointed.
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