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‘This Fierce People’ Review: Fighting the British Down South
The Wall Street Journal· 5 days ago“If they succeed against Charles Town,” wrote Gen. George Washington to Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, in command of the garrison in that city, “there is much reason to believe, the Southern States ...
‘1974’ and ‘Do Something’: Notes From the Me Decade
The Wall Street Journal· 6 days agoHalf a century ago, as a budding writer living in San Francisco, she met an unbalanced young man named Anthony Russo, a former Rand analyst who had...
‘Miss May Does Not Exist’ Review: Queen of Comedy
The Wall Street Journal· 6 days agoElaine May’s life story, a show-business saga, is a vivid picture of a woman who teetered at the top of Broadway and Hollywood for decades. Parking her...
‘The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum’ Review: Larceny on the Lower East Side
The Wall Street Journal· 6 days agoFredericka “Marm” Mandelbaum cut a startling figure. About 6 feet tall, apple-cheeked and...
Science Fiction & Fantasy: ‘Ghost Station’ by S.A. Barnes
The Wall Street Journal· 6 days agoIt may be hot outside, but this season offers no fewer than three books that could raise goosebumps...
‘Left for Dead’ Review: Marooned in the Falklands
The Wall Street Journal· 6 days agoSea otter fur has a million hairs per square inch, a fun fact that comes to us early in Eric Jay Dolin’s “Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and...
‘How to Be a Renaissance Woman’ Review: Bold and Beautiful
The Wall Street Journal· 6 days agoIn “How to Be a Renaissance Woman,” Jill Burke dispels any misplaced nostalgia for a more innocent...
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ Review: Uncovering Brilliance
The Wall Street Journal· 6 days agoRediscovering Mary Sidney, Elizabeth Cary, Aemilia Lanyer and other lost voices of the Renaissance.
‘The Network of Life’ Review: Natural Mixer
The Wall Street Journal· 6 days agoEvolution has been depicted as a tree in which genes pass down vertically through generations. But genes can also move sideways.