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Every Sunday, readers of The New York Times Book Review turn with anticipation to see which...
Edward Lear: A Life
Peter Levi and Robin Hanbury Tenison
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"Children swarmed to him like settlers. He became a land." W.H. Auden Edward Lear - beloved nonsense...
Jacob-Isaac Segal: A Montreal Yiddish Poet and His Milieu
Pierre Anctil and Vivian Felsen
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Born in the Ukraine in 1896, and settling in Montreal in 1910, Segal became one of the first Yiddish...
Jane Austen's Letters
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Jane Austen's letters afford a unique insight into the daily life of the novelist: intimate and...
Letters to a Sister
Rose Macaulay and Constance Babington Smith
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The letters in this volume were written by Rose Macaulay to her younger sister, Jean, between 1926...
Life of Rossini
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Rossini's popularity in Italy in the early 1820s was certainly not echoed in France where he was...
Lonesome Dreamer: The Life of John G. Neihardt
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The life of Flaming Rainbow, Nebraska's first poet laureate. American poet and writer John G....
Little Magazine, World Form
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Little magazines made modernism. These unconventional, noncommercial publications may have brought...
Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD
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The first official account of the iconic record label. An NME Book of the Year 2013 * A Rough Trade...
Contemporary British Television Crime Drama: Cops on the Box
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Contemporary British Television Crime Drama examines one of the medium's most popular genres and...