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Street without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria
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Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White
Carl Van Vechten is best-known today not for who he [...]
Black Sea Salt
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Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews
At one point in his new collection of essays, Geoff [...]
Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin
When Bruce Chatwin died in 1989, at the age of [...]
Not at All What One Is Used To: The Life and Times of Isabella Gardner
The phrase “poor little rich girl” might almost have been [...]
Blue Nights
Joan Didion built her reputation on insightful journalism that muffled [...]
Iris Murdoch, A Writer at War: Letters & Diaries, 1939-1945
A Writer at War collects correspondence and diary entries by [...]
Reading Tolstoy on the iPhone
I remember when Ted, my good friend and inspiration, went [...]