Charles Flowers
Content by Charles Flowers
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Weaving this epic novel somewhat to the lee side of the historical John Brown, Russell Banks has created in Cloudsplitter an immediate landmark in American fiction: lyricism that e
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In the 1994 military/political intervention in Haiti, Bob Shacochis spent some 18 months on the ground -- most often with U.S. Special Forces (Green Berets).
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Playwright Neil Simon's first autobiographical work, Rewrites [1996], ended with the death of his first wife Joan after 20 years of marriage.
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In Jeffrey Lent's lengthy but tautly plotted debut novel, three generations of a remarkably introspective New England family struggle with the social ambiguities and emotional conflicts of their co
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In this wondrous book, Michael Allin seduces us into a wealth of political and intellectual history by weaving together a thousand facts that shimmer like fairy tale and myth.
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An adroit blend of melodrama and literary fiction, Louis Begley's Mistler's Exit recycles character types, themes, and settings from his previous novel, About Schmidt.
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It can be no accident that Andrew Miller's beautifully dark novel Casanova in Love evokes both Marcello Mastroianni's film performance as the famous roue and Joseph Losey's somber movie of Don Giov
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The fanfare for this mammoth 770-page World War II novel sounded a dissonant chord or two.
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Adept in the language of corpses, forensic anthropologist Mary H.
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Challenged to find meaning in his own final years, the esteemed Jungian psychologist James Hillman discovers, creates, or imagines the reader will eventually choose one of these verbs a rational,
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What explains the current rage for the 17th-century Italian artist known as Caravaggio ?
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Rarely can a single volume fundamentally change one's view of a major part of the planet and its complex history, but this epic account of the hundreds of states and thousands of colorful leaders w
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