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James Fenimore Cooper reveals “deeply hidden truths” about the American Revolution
Far from being overtly patriotic historical tapestries, The Spy and Lionel Lincoln refuse to simplify the Revolution into a melodrama pitting “good Patriots against bad Loyalists.”

Mark Greif on the new Bellow bio, for @nytimesbooks: "The vein that successfully keeps one focused on Bellow, and enchanted, is the novelist’s excerpted prose.... Not just in the novels and stories, but in letters to every sort of addressee"
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Mindy Aloff: “Most writers . . . are fascinated by dancing”
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Leslie Perri, “Space Episode”

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James Fenimore Cooper: Two Novels of the American Revolution LOA N°312
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My Dearest Julia: The Wartime Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Wife
Madeleine L'Engle: The Kairos Novels (boxed set)

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