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We think of poets as private people, souls tending their own gardens. But the founding father of English literature was a man of the world. A diplomat and customs official, Chaucer was captured in battle, sued for debt and indicted for rape--a charge that was apparently dropped. In this...
At hospitals across the U.S., similar tales of callous and even life-threatening treatment apparently stemming from changes in the Medicare system seem to be cropping up with disturbing frequency. To concerned doctors and health-care groups, they reflect a growing gap in the American health-care system. Carroll Estes...
Hanging laundry is not a bad analogy for the way Breslin works. His book relies less on plot than on the cumulative effect of colorful anecdotes flapping on a slack story line. There are tales of the old sod, immigration and Boss Tweed's New York. The first male Morrison...
These eleven tales blend the domestic pity of Raymond Carver with the macabre comedy and rough justice of Roald Dahl. They nearly all turn, as most of Rendell's novels do, on two inward-looking impulses: revenge and the desire to hide. The characters are conventional middle-class Britons. Their...
Dylan and Shelton had been getting along fine ever since the singer showed up in Greenwich Village in 1961 and the author, then a music reviewer for the New York Times, turned in a rave. The two became cronies and, for a time, neighbors. Shelton's evocations of the Village...