Barton Cross, a Navy serviceman, was taken prisoner by the Japanese in 1942. Then his brothers tried to get him back.
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Is Salman Rushdie the novelist we need to capture America under Trump?
Rushdie is a writer keen to take on big, messy matters—and few are bigger or messier these days than American life at home and abroad.
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Superman with a Racket
The greatest athletes transcend mere games. They soar above competition, tower over leagues, fuel economies and even change societies. They always represent more; on the field, in the ring and off the court. The truly great ones even continue to touch lives when they’re not competing. Burning with passion, a love of the game so […]
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Why do they dislike us? An American in Turkey seeks an answer.
Suzy Hansen’s ‘Notes on a Foreign Country’ is not a romantic ‘Eat Pray Love’-style tale of self-discovery.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: a novelist who was Catholic, but not a ‘Catholic novelist’
F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed the American dream primarily through its failures to bring happiness to his main characters.
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An intimate look at the bond between Dorothy Day and her daughter Tamar
Beauty is the medium through which Kate Hennessy describes her mother and grandmother.
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The fall of Ernest Hemingway
“Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy.” –F. Scott Fitzgerald Reading a great biography is like watching a tragedy unfold. The promises of youth gradually give way to the limitations imposed by reality, and demise and denouement inevitably ensue. This is especially compelling when the subject of the biography is a larger-than-life […]
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The French Foreign Legion: the colonial force par excellence
A new book situates the Legion within the shameful history of French colonialism.
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On the campaign trail in 1960 with John F. Kennedy
For those who still want to believe that a full JFK presidency would surely have led to an American Camelot, this book is not for you.
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Here’s what Hillary Clinton says about Pope Francis and other Catholic subjects in her new book
Mrs. Clinton writes that a TED Talk given by Pope Francis earlier this year helped her move beyond anger following her unexpected loss to Donald Trump.