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I was going through a major book slump this past month, and it was driving me crazy. I scanned my way through a how-to that felt flimsy. I rushed through one memoir that felt a bit all over the place,...
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The bomb that rattles the quiet West German suburb of Bonn went off before the start of The Little Drummer Girl. The first pages of John le Carré’s 1983 novel are filled with questions, the what-if...
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