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Aloof at the best of times, Tom walled himself off from his wife and their problems.
As Eliot remarked, “criticism is as inevitable as breathing,” and the best critics—those like Vendler and Mr. Guriel—breathe particularly deeply.
Ms. MeLampy is at her best when she eschews personal narrative in favor of her lacerating accounts of the animal festivals she visits.
Easily one of 2025’s best albums, “Whiskey Lies & Alibis” by William Beckmann, released in June, harkens back to the finest country music of the 1990s while keeping a boot planted firmly in the present.
From Salon
The best programs in the country are now getting their players from a highly unlikely source: the NBA.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
