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Sex, Money and Séances: This 1922 Murder Had It All

A scion of wealth claimed self-defense and invoked a sinister blackmailing ring. But, James Polchin asks, what did they have…

admin28 December 2023

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Mary Augusta Ward’s “Lady Rose’s Daughter” was the blockbuster best seller of its day.

admin21 October 2023

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LET US DESCEND, by Jesmyn Ward After Annis, the enslaved teenage girl at the center of Jesmyn Ward’s new novel,…

admin14 October 2023

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Jesmyn Ward gestured with her eyes and a tilt of her face, hands on the wheel. “This crazy colored house…