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“It’s not as if I identified in any way with a Ptolemaic queen who murdered her siblings”

‘Sempre Susan’ by Sigrid Nunez

Book excerpt:

‘Sempre Susan’ by Sigrid Nunez

Monroe

‘The Realisms of Berenice Abbott’ by Terri Weissman

Book excerpt:

‘The Realisms of Berenice Abbott’ by Terri Weissman

‘Music for Silenced Voices’ by Wendy Lesser

Book excerpt:

‘Music for Silenced Voices’ by Wendy Lesser

‘Unusually brilliant’

‘Diaghilev at all times was what he was’

‘Diaghilev at all times was what he was’

‘Thelonious Monk: The Life And Times Of An American Original’ by Robin D. G. Kelley

Book excerpt:

‘Thelonious Monk: The Life And Times Of An American Original’ by Robin D. G. Kelley

Glory bumps, vowel movements

Unauthorized? Pah!

Born Fluent

“One day she’d be a maharaja, the next day a punk, and then she’d turn up as a corporate secretary in a proper little suit and gloves”

‘Crowded by Beauty’ by David Schneider

Book excerpt:

‘Crowded by Beauty’ by David Schneider

‘Outside Looking In’ by Gary Wills

Book excerpt:

‘Outside Looking In’ by Gary Wills

All quite unseemly

An Ear Cat’s America

Donald Sturrock Reads from ‘Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl’

Podcast:

Donald Sturrock Reads from ‘Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl’

Deathgates, Balefire and Lightning

Deathgates, Balefire and Lightning

Inscrutable George

Inscrutable George

Nietzche’s Private God