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Book Review

Labor Day

by Jim Filkins

Carving out a niche in the world of fiction with what has been referred to as a corporate nightmare or management novel, Kemske has written his fifth novel and fourth of this new genre—Labor Day. A union headquarters is the backdrop... Read More

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The Last Hollywood Romance

by Marlene Satter

Emmaline Goldman Grosvenor is twenty-eight, a Hollywood writer who laces her conversation with profanity and her life with insights into the condition of loneliness, the state of television writing, and the difficulties of life in... Read More

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The Living World

by Bronwyn Jones

“Saving nature has always been exhilarating, frustrating, poignant, and controversial,” writes William Conway in the introduction to The Living World. Perhaps never more so than during this new millenium explosion of virtual... Read More

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Art and the Empire City

by Bronwyn Jones

In 1827, an author of “Letters Descriptive of New York, Written to a Literary Gentleman in Dublin” published in the New-York Mirror and Ladies’ Literary Gazette posed the question, “What did it mean to be the Empire City, ‘the... Read More

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Einstein's Brainchild

by Jill Blue Lin

In 1919, the results of two expeditions observing an eclipse were presented at a joint meeting of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society. These results verified Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, and the... Read More

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Basho and the Fox

by Leigh Forest

Most people are introduced to haiku sometime in elementary school when they awkwardly attempt seventeen syllable nature poems. In Japan, however, haiku is revered as a true art form, a powerful, poetic example of the axiom “less is... Read More

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Marley's Ghost

by Nelly Heitman

Everyone familiar with Dickens’ A Christmas Carol remembers Jacob Marley: the ghostly partner who came to warn Ebenezer Scrooge to change his ways lest Scrooge suffer the same fate. What fate was it? Only alluded to by the reference of... Read More

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Difficult Women

by Robin Farrell Edmunds

When narrator Frederick Quist phones his recently deceased father’s home, Quist, “half expecting him to answer the phone” gets Isabel instead, “his fourth and last wife, by whom he had had four girls in a vain attempt to replace... Read More

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