Matthew Jackson
Content by Matthew Jackson
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We’ve seen the Watergate story imagined and re-imagined from every possible angle.
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William Howard Taft was a giant—both literally and figuratively—in the world of American politics, a figure remembered more perhaps for his prodigious size than his honor-bound views of
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Tales about the Second World War are so popular in modern fiction that the risk of running across a stale story keeps rising.
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John Boyne has a gift for crafting historical tales that hold all the richness and scope of a period while still maintaining a sense of intimacy.
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Thrillers centered on the search for some ancient artifact have been popping up with dizzying regularity ever since Dan Brown made his name (and millions) with them.
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The island of Galveston is a strange kind of American microcosm, existing both as its own slightly warped little world and as an important thread in the national fabric.
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Few modern writers have shown such savage skill for crafting grotesque tales of excess as Martin Amis.
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For half a century, while he built a reputation as one of the great novelists of his generation with works like Marjorie Morningstar and The Winds of War, Herman Wouk chased what
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Fantasies that span centuries, time travel, epic romances, secret societies and ancient conspiracies—Bee Ridgway’s debut novel has all of these things, but despite these familiar tropes
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Stella Tillyard is a seasoned and respected historian with a number of acclaimed nonfiction works under her belt, so it makes sense that she would pour her expertise and historical passions into he
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The title of John Irving’s latest novel is a declaration of its ambition.
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The best romance stories are always the most fearless. You know them when you read them: stories by authors who dare to dig deep into the agony of obsessive and destructive love.
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Coming-of-age stories about young men trying to find their purpose in life can make readers cringe before they’ve even read the first page—such stories are often assumed to be nothing m
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Looking at the premise of Andrew Pyper’s sixth novel, The Demonologist, you could be forgiven for thinking you’re about to crack open another
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