Books

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An Art of Life

Carvaggio’s extraordinary painting changes an ordinary life, while Karl Ove Knausgård’s ordinary life makes extraordinary literature
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After the Thaw

‘A Legacy of Spies,’ which really cannot be understood without reading some of the predecessor novels, is not a match for them
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Keep Them Poor & Tired

Jeff Guinn’s new biography-cum-history is a study of persuasion and power in Peoples Temple, the twentieth-century socialist cult led by preacher Jim Jones
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Fame Is Fickle

MacKinlay Kantor and his magnum opus are largely forgotten. Tom Shroder dives the legacy of his grandfather, who was once a big deal
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