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Perdita, by sociologist Dylan Riley, is a beautiful attempt both to relive his marriage and to see the world through his late wife’s eyes ...

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The man has written seventy-seven books, so some nod to brevity is required. Any published stories compiled within a larger collection will not be ranked singularly. That still leaves sixty-plus ...

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ON 7 November 1867, Marya Salomea Sklodowska was born in Warsaw, then part of the Russian Empire. She was the youngest of five children, and became known as “Manya” by her family. She was a ...

The Man Who Told the Truth" is the first biography of the legendary writer ... One of the most notable moments — and you capture this in the book — was when Jimmy Breslin received letters ...