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Book Review: William S. Burroughs vs. The Qur’an by Michael Muhammad Knight
Knight's writing will either offend or inspire you, and in places it might even do both.
Read More »Book Review: The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr by H.W. Brands
Aaron Burr's correspondence serves as primary source of portrait of enigmatic historical figure.
Read More »Book Review: Jack’s Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac by Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee
Jack Kerouac as others saw him.
Read More »Book Review: Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China by Paul French
Murder and mutilation in Peking.
Read More »Book Review: Saint Genet by Jean-Paul Sartre
Sartre's classic Genet critical biography reissued.
Read More »Book Review: Escape From Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden
What's it like to be born in a North Korean prison camp?
Read More »Book Review: Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver by Scott Stossell
Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver proves that Shriver was important for far more than the Kennedy connecion.
Read More »Book Review: Charles Munch by D. Kern Holoman
A fascinating account of the life of conductor Charles Munch.
Read More »Book Review: The Fall of the House of Forbes: The Inside Story of the Collapse of a Media Empire by Stewart Pinkerton
Forbes magazine rises and falls.
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