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Book Reviews by subject:
Biography & Paris

June 2024 Issue

Munro Price

Cabarets & Conspiracies

City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle Epoque

By Mike Rapport

Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair

By Maurice Samuels

February 2020 Issue

Jay Parini

Whose Life is It Anyway?

Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me – a Memoir

By Deirdre Bair

July 1995 Issue

Sebastian Faulks

He Smoked Incessantly

André Malraux

By Curtis Cate

November 1994 Issue

Jane Charteris

He Could Make Love to his Wife Only in the Dark

Buñuel

By John Baxter

December 2016 Issue

Kevin Jackson

Enfant Terrible

Jean Cocteau: A Life

By Claude Arnaud (Translated by Lauren Elkin & Charlotte Mandell)

August 2014 Issue

Alex Danchev

Band of Bohemians

In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and Modernism in Paris 1900–1910

By Sue Roe

October 2008 Issue

Frances Spalding

Artist of the Floating World

Chagall: Love and Exile

By Jackie Wullschlager

August 2013 Issue

David Gelber

Triggering Kristallnacht

The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan: A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat, and a Murder in Paris

By Jonathan Kirsch

April 2013 Issue

Justin Beplate

Bravo Yankee Oscar

Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America

By Roy Morris Jr

The Marquess of Queensberry: Wilde’s Nemesis

By Linda Stratmann

Ceremonies of Bravery: Oscar Wilde, Carlos Blacker, and the Dreyfus Affair

By J Robert Maguire