Letter writers weigh in on Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Prop 1, Chris Ryan and "none of the above."
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For the past half-century Muriel Spark has been the recognised master of detachment. The closer she approaches matters of terror or outrage...
228 months ago

Jeffrey Earl Hurd, Esq., 57, passed away suddenly on September 22, 2024. Jeff was born on April 22, 1967, in Utica, NY and grew up in Rome, NY.
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A story of passionate and devious personalities, skulduggery and counter-skulduggery. Long stretches of her book feel almost like beach reading.
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Thomas and Jane Carlyle: Portrait of a Marriage by Rosemary Ashton. Pimlico, 560 pp., £15, February 2003, 0 7126 6634
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A book about the delights and healing effects of reading, recalling the novels about precocious readers and intellectual explorers that many...
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Colin and Clare discuss Spark's kaleidoscopic view of reality and the ways in which both Catholicism and Calvinism play through her work.
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Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life by Janet Todd. Weidenfeld, 516 pp., £25, April 2000, 0 297 84299
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Irene Meier, age 96, of Rome, passed away peacefully on June 30, 2023, with her loving family at her side.She was born May 30, 1927, in Rome a daughter of...
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The astonishingly prolific British author Iris Murdoch published 26 novels in her lifetime. Additionally, her oeuvre includes five books on...
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