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Ivan Boesky, stock trader convicted in insider trading scandal, dead at 87, according to reports
WVLT-TV Knoxville· 5 days agoIvan Boesky, involved in one of Wall Street’s biggest insider trading scandals, dies at age 87,...
Five of the best books on climbing mountains
The Economist· 19 hours agoMOUNTAINEERING HAS gone mainstream. Take Mount Everest. In the four decades after Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first reached the summit in 1953...
Sage Stossel
GBH News· 3 days agoShe is an editor at *The Atlantic Monthly* and the books editor of *The Radcliffe Quarterly*. Her editorial cartoon feature, "Sage, Ink," appears regularly ...
Young Renny
The Atlantic· 7 days agoONE way of measuring Miss de la Roche’s accomplishment in creating the Jalna saga is to ask oneself how many other novels one remembers with such lasting clearness and pleasure. The concerns ...
Mysteries: Harry Dolan’s ‘Don’t Turn Around’
The Wall Street Journal· 20 hours agoKate Summerlin, the protagonist of Harry Dolan’s “Don’t Turn Around,” has written a pair of true-crime books about murdered women. The choice seems...
Finch's Fortune
The Atlantic· 7 days agoPEOPLE who have read all of the Jalna books talk about Adeline, Augusta, Nicholas, Ernest, Renny, Alayne, Eden, and Piers precisely as they talk about the family next door. Women, especially ...
Fall Fiction
The Atlantic· 7 days agoThe argument has started once more with the publication of The Master of Jalna by Mazo de la Roche (Atlantic Monthly Press and Little, Brown, $2.50), and ...
Fiction and nonfiction book picks for every reader this summer
Newsweek· 3 days agoCurated for you by Newsweek staff are our most recommended, fairly recent fiction and nonfiction reads. Washington's sophomore novel is a tender story of former best friends who come back into ...
Three Novels
The Atlantic· 7 days agoJoseph Hergesheimer’s The Limestone Tree (Knopf, $2.50) — a very pleasing book, constructed on a happy plan, and interesting both as history and as fiction — traces the life of a family, founded ...
Light Fiction
The Atlantic· 7 days agoGay, of whether vacation writing makes for good vacation reading. Lark Ascending, by Mazo de la Roche (Atlantic Monthly and Little, Brown, $2.50), will ...
