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My Tante Rezia was a patron of the arts, one of those silent supporters that every family, every artist, has and needs but rarely acknowledges.

A new biography of John Keats is no match for Keats’s poetic inventions.

How Argentine fiction about the Malvinas War conspires in a trick of perspective.

Nathan Englander’s play, The Twenty-Seventh Man, focuses on the moment that Yiddish culture in Russia died a sudden and unnatural death.

Can recordings of classical music ever be in concert with concert hall performances?

Ayana Mathis’s The Twelve Tribes of Hattie; Andrey Platonov’s Happy Moscow

How thrillers inform spycraft, and the fictions that belie them both.