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Military Book Review Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant
Strategy Page· 1 day agoJohn Reeves’s Soldier of Destiny represents the latest work of revision and rediscovery of this most important historical figure in U.S. history. As to Grant’s relationship with slavery, Reeves ...
Roundup of 2024 Pulitzer Prizes for literature
Republican-American· 1 day agoA beautifully rendered novel set in West Virginia’s Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in the aftermath of the Civil War where a severely wounded Union...
Cynthia Carr's 6 favorite books that explore social issues
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Briefly Noted Book Reviews
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Nobel Prize-Winning Author Alice Munro Has Died at 92
Vogue· 5 hours agoAlice Munro, the Canadian short story writer who earned the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, died on...
Review: ‘Back to Black’ fashions a respectable biopic from Amy Winehouse’s sad, brief life
SFChronicle Datebook· 1 day agoThe Amy Winehouse biopic, “Back to Black,” has only one problem, and that’s Winehouse herself. Stuck...
Movie review: 'Back to Black' oversimplifies Amy Winehouse
UPI· 2 days ago"Back to Black," in theaters Friday, falls into the usual musician biopic traps in dramatizing Amy...
RFK Jr. claims a doctor told him a worm ate part of his brain, reports New York Times
Politico via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe divorce wasn’t finalized because Richardson Kennedy...sister, Kerry Kennedy, allegedly visited...
Review | Claire Messud turns her family’s history into a masterpiece
Washington Post· 5 days ago“This Strange Eventful History” is a novel that’s quilted from scraps of memory treasured in the...
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