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June 2014

A modern classic

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A review of Allan Greenberg: Classical Architect by Allan Greenberg.

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A war without heroes

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On Victor Davis Hanson’s War Like No Other.

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Victorians’ secrets

by Donna Rifkind

A review of Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt.

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