Pictures From An Inquisition
The work of the writer Victor Serge faultlessly captures the labrynth of bureaucratic incrimination into which the Soviet Union descended
Book Review
The Lonely Passion
A Sex and the City writer looks for love
Princess of Discrimination
Shirley Hazzard's masterly descriptions and expertly drawn characters are in full evidence in this new novel—her first in more than twenty years
American Radical
Mark Twain developed an enormous and subversive personality—but Fred Kaplan’s new biography illuminates it only in flickers
Nannyhood and Apple Pie
As capitalism's "latest recruits," American women may know less than their nannies about loving care
Notes From a Native Daughter
Joan Didion's decline
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