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Who knew spooks could write? Amaryllis Fox certainly can. Her Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA is an addictive read. If you’re up for a thrill…
Ann Kjellberg
Jan 15
Jonathan Karp wrote prophetically in 2008 of the need for more focused attention on the publication of books in order to secure what we might know call…
Ann Kjellberg
Jan 10
Last week saw the loss of another titan of the book world, Sonny Mehta, for thirty years the editor and publisher of the Knopf imprint and the several …
Ann Kjellberg
Jan 9
Muldoon’s the Busby Berkeley of contemporary poetry, his choruses opening and closing like elaborately staged flowers. A poem in one book will rhyme wi…
Ann Kjellberg
Jan 6 1
American generals do not fear war. Few in the Pentagon blanch at the idea of even a major conflict with another global power. The only thing that truly…
Ann Kjellberg
Jan 2
Here is a Christmas present for you to open: Lillian Smith’s Memory of a Large Christmas. It is a treasure that deserves to be as familiar and repeated…
Ann Kjellberg
Dec 24, 2019
Marquez said we all lead three lives—our public, our private, and our secret. Did Elaine have a secret life? I like the way stars make guest appearance…
Ann Kjellberg
Dec 23, 2019 1
When Ann Kjellberg asked me to write for Book Post, I leapt. I had a few thoughts about Curzio Malaparte’s The Kremlin Ball. No, she said, how about El…
Ann Kjellberg
Dec 22, 2019
Karen Armstrong's The Lost Art of Scripture is a masterful, eloquent, polymathic study moving deftly across millennia from the Pacific Rim to the India…
Ann Kjellberg
Dec 17, 2019
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Ann Kjellberg
Dec 13, 2019
As midlife gives way to bit-later-life, books give way to more books. Might midlife mandate a reflection on all you have read—where it has taken you—an…
Ann Kjellberg
Dec 10, 2019
What rhythm, timbre, accent, and tone do for the spoken word, typographic design does for words printed on a page or displayed on a screen. Much as an …
Ann Kjellberg
Dec 6, 2019
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