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Jul 19, 2023
It is rare indeed to encounter a book about art which is itself a work of art. George Painter’s Marcel Proust is one such, as is Leon Edel’s masterly life of...
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Jun 13, 2023
The 1990s were a boom time for fiction. In those days — and this is not an exaggeration — a teenage girl could secure a half million pound advance for a one-page outline...
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May 26, 2023
That the Renaissance took place north as well as south of the Alps is not news, but in his enlightening and fascinating study, “The Other Renaissance,” Paul Strathern...
Jul 19, 2023It is rare indeed to encounter a book about art which is itself a work of art. George Painter’s Marcel Proust is one such, as is Leon Edel’s masterly life of...
Jun 13, 2023The 1990s were a boom time for fiction. In those days — and this is not an exaggeration — a teenage girl could secure a half million pound advance for a one-page outline...
May 26, 2023That the Renaissance took place north as well as south of the Alps is not news, but in his enlightening and fascinating study, “The Other Renaissance,” Paul Strathern...