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Media Center: ‘Northern Armageddon’ by Peter MacLeod
…eded by a daring and brilliant scaling of the bluffs by British troops. As MacLeod’s masterful survey indicates, however, the British triumph was the product of prolonged and sometimes misguided planning, an extended and frustrating siege, meticulous coordination between land and sea forces, and blind luck. “MacLeod, a historian at the Canadian War Museum, relies heavily on original sources from both sides, including dispatches, letters, diaries,…
Read more ›No Great Mischief Reading Group Guide
…the Pretty Horses; Wayne Johnston, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams; Graham Swift, Last Orders; Philip Caputo, The Voyage; Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree. About Alistair MacLeod Read an author bio and view a complete list of titles by Alistair MacLeod available from Random House here….
Read more ›I Was a Dancer by Jacques d'Amboise
…. . Enthusiasm is what d’Amboise does best, and he makes it infectious.” —Alastair Macaulay, The New York Times Book Review “Who am I? I’m a man; an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.” In this rich, expansive, spirited memoir, Jacques d’Amboise, one of America’s most celebrated classical dancers, and former principal dancer with the…
Read more ›Read an Exclusive Excerpt from Dolly Alderton’s Ghosts
…nd not just the ones by Dan Brown—real ones, by Hemingway and Bukowski and Alastair Campbell. There were graphic designers—Jesus, there were so many graphic designers. Why had I only ever met a handful of graphic designers in real life and yet I had seen at least 350 of them on this dating app? The saddest category I’d noticed was the Left-Behind Guys. They would not have been aware that they gave off any particularly melancholic personal brand, b…
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