On Memorial Day in 2019, 35 years into a happy marriage, novelist Geraldine Brooks’ beloved husband Tony Horwitz drops dead on a Washington D.C. street.
The first six months after Pearl Harbor were a very dismal time for America. Facing nothing but constant defeat at the hands of the Japanese Empire, America desperately needed heroes.
As both muse and career manager of her husband Salvador, Gala Dalí was a central figure in one of the most interesting and provocative art movements of the 20th century, surrealism.
“The potential readership for this book is not limited to Austen fans—of which there are legions—but also to those interested in the work of women writers and . . .
“She was hounded by the Gestapo, which during the war visited her very often in the palace. Officers of the secret police demanded that she bring her children back to the Third Reich.
“By avoiding the thorny issues and critical assessments he needs to make, Sheff doesn’t resurrect her for us but instead adds to the negatively charged mystique that has always engulfed Yok
“Deborah Dwork has fashioned an inspiring, wide-ranging, and gripping story of brave Americans living perilously among their refugee clients in dangerous wartime Europe and China.”
Whether you have read just one or both parts—or none—of Goethe’s epic poem Faust, this exegesis and commentary by A. N. Wilson will enrich your mind and spirit.
In the preface to his raunchy, revealing, and sometimes disturbing memoir, The Loves of My Life, Edmund White declares that he is now, in his mid-eighties, “at an age when writers are supp
“Jade Scott explains that, depending on your belief, Mary Queen of Scots was innocent, naïve, cunning, manipulative, deceitful, adulterous, tyrannical . . . and more.”
George Cukor began directing at the beginning of the sound era and continued until he was 81 years old, when he directed his 55th production, Rich and Famous.He wasn’t as versati
