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‘A Light in the Darkness’ Review: The Song of Joaquín Rodrigo
The Wall Street Journal· 2 days agoBOOKSHELF Several mid-20th-century composers, though prolific, are remembered mostly for a single...
'A mind broader than the sky': Xi and French culture
China Daily· 2 hours agoEvery time Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers New Year address, his office bookshelves inside the Zhongnanhai compound have always been studied by curious bookworms across the country and ...
‘Walker Percy’ Review: Writing for Redemption
The Wall Street Journal· 2 days agoBOOKSHELF It is difficult to confront the work of the novelist Walker Percy (1916-1990) without first taking in the tragedies with which his early life...
‘Buster’ Review: City Dog Seeks Roommate
The Wall Street Journal· 2 days agoBOOKSHELF Do dogs think and, if so, about what? Are they happy or just living one bowl of chow to the next, minding their masters? The crime writer...
‘The King of Diamonds’ Review: While You Were Out
The Wall Street Journal· 4 days agoBOOKSHELF In classic cop-speak, the bold, agile perp had a practiced M.O., or modus operandi. The jewel thief would approach one of the mansions of...
‘Cracking the Nazi Code’ Review: Seeing the Reich to Come
The Wall Street Journal· 5 days agoBOOKSHELF Winthrop Bell, a British subject born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, was studying...
Five Best: Books on Clothes
The Wall Street Journal· 3 days agoBOOKSHELF The Painter of Modern Life By Charles Baudelaire (1863) 1. Charles Baudelaire startled Europe in 1863 by telling the middle class its modern...
‘Fighting the Night’ Review: A Pilot Over Iwo Jima
The Wall Street Journal· 2 days agoBOOKSHELF Some books are passion projects. Some can simply be described as love projects. Such is the case for Paul Hendrickson’s “Fighting the Night:...
‘Soul by Soul’ Review: Men and Women on a Mission
The Wall Street Journal· 3 days agoBOOKSHELF Few callings have undergone such a fall from grace in the West as that of the Christian missionary. In the 19th century missionaries were seen...
Sound Advice: Good amplifier-speaker combos for under $1,000
New Hampshire Union Leader· 2 days agoQ. I have an all-in-one stereo that includes a CD player and a cassette player. It has finally died...
