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June 2013

Big, fat, Greek weddings

by Sarah Ruden

A review of Helen of Troy: Beauty, Myth, Devastation by Ruby Blondell.

April 1988

Marsden Hartley: at home & abroad

by Karen Wilkin

On Marsden Hartley’s life and art.

March 1988

The Flagstad legend

by Samuel Lipman

On the Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad.

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