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No Mystery: The Enduring Appeal of Inspector Maigret
Georges Simenon Wrote 75 Maigret Novels. They’re Still Worth Reading
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adam hill
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Wisdom to Tell: Why ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ Still Matters
Reviewing Kurt Vonnegut’s Classic Anti-War Novel
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Joel J Miller
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What Shapes Our Desires?
Luke Burgis Discusses the Power of Fiction, Health of the Humanities, Mimetic Desire, the Woke/Anti-Woke Binary, and the Three City Problem
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Joel J Miller
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The Endless Possibility of Renewal
Reviewing Willa Cather’s 1918 Classic ‘My Ántonia’
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Joel J Miller
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Challenging Experts: A Lone Journalist Confronts John Steinbeck
A Conversation with Bill Steigerwald, Author of ‘Dogging Steinbeck’
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Joel J Miller
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An Eternal Song: Remembering ‘A Canticle for Leibowitz’
The Enduring Appeal and Witness of Walter M. Miller Jr.’s Classic Novel
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Bethel McGrew
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A Sketchy Parable of Our Divisive Era
Reviewing John Steinbeck’s ‘Travels with Charley in Search of America’
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Joel J Miller
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June 2024

How Do You Organize 3,000 Books? Touring My Personal Library
A Recent Renovation Means It’s Time to Reorganize (and Purge)
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Joel J Miller
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Russian Roulette: The Woman Who Bet on Dostoevsky
The Novelist’s Life and Business Partner. Reviewing ‘The Gambler Wife’ by Andrew D. Kaufman
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Joel J Miller
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1 Mom, 2 Boys, and a Big Classic Novel
A Peek Inside Our Mother-Son Summer Book Club
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Shemaiah Gonzalez
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Reading ‘War and Peace’ in Both War and Peace
How Leo Tolstoy’s Classic Novel Travels Across the Many Seasons of Life
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Lucy S. R. Austen
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Writing History: This Time It’s Personal
Storytellers Shape Our Stories. Reviewing Richard Cohen’s ‘Making History’
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Joel J Miller
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