A century ago, W.B. Yeats won the Nobel Prize. It was the start of a remarkable late era for the Irish poet
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The writer is an easy man to admire and sympathize with, but a hard one to like
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Antonia Fraser paints a convincing, shocking picture of upper-class mores in the late eighteenth century
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It’s hard to find writers ancient or modern who have used language with a music, wit and tenderness comparable to Moore’s
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Count Galeazzo Ciano’s career is uniquely revealing as an insight into the perils of joining the family business
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Luke Turner’s essential thesis is that the war opened up a brief time of sexual liberation for men
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Blackout laid the foundation for the EDM revolution, Lady Gaga’s self-referential debut album and the rest of the past fifteen years of pop
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Good Night, Oscar takes us back to a time when, for better or worse, both foibles and felonies were targets for humor
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In many of their most enduring images, the Old Masters did not shy away from asking ‘Why?’ in the face of suffering and trauma
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The artist and writer’s life is the story of the twentieth century in microcosm
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In an effort to lighten up my diet for the summer, I explored the 101 Cookbooks catalogue
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