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During this time he also worked as studio assistant to artist and illustrator Tomie DePaola. He lives and paints in the seacoast area of New Hampshire, within a short drive of the mountains, the ocean ...

Reading makes one aware of the rawness of the emotional and existential wounds that can occur in love relationships, and if literature opens glimpses into even the darkest sides of the human, Kairos ...

As anyone who has spent time in a publishing house knows only too well, the notion that ‘there’s a book in everyone’ is a cruel lie. Be that as it may, autobiography is the one branch of writing at ...

In The Einstein Vendetta, Thomas Harding surveys the summer that one family were gunned down by Nazis – and the pain that ensued for decades ...

Peter Lovesey’s charmingly old-fashioned sleuth is at last ready to hang up his trilby. But he has one more mystery to solve first.

The author of this interesting book, the eminent Israeli academic and public intellectual, Shlomo Avineri, has not written a conventional biography of Herzl. Instead he has tried to capture the ...