Books
Sally Rooney’s ‘Intermezzo’ marks a fictional turn toward a private comfort zone
January 10, 2025In her latest, fourth novel, Intermezzo, Sally Rooney continues her exploration of intimate relationships, albeit with a shift away from the clear political critique that characterized her earlier works.
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The Dark Ages are here again
January 9, 2025The latest Harry Palmer L.A. mystery thriller, The Dark Ages, is about censorship and repression in Hollywood in 1951 and its echo in America and the West today.
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Mark Twain (1835-1910), anti-imperialist thinker for all time
January 8, 2025There’s still a goldmine of bounty left in Mark Twain’s collective work to educate, entertain, and embolden readers for untold centuries to come.
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‘Cold War: A Love Story’: Novel takes us to 1960s-’70s revolutionary hotspots
December 19, 2024The author is especially effective in communicating the nature of his growing political commitment.
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Lear on the highway: Albert Maltz’s ‘The Journey of Simon McKeever’
December 18, 2024The scriptwriter, novelist, and blacklisted member of the Hollywood Ten Albert Maltz was around 40 himself when he wrote his novel on aging, The Journey of Simon McKeever, first published in 1949.
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