In the following review, Cross offers tempered assessment of The Birthday Boys.
Well into the 1960s, my schoolmasters solemnly taught that Amundsen—he merited neither rank nor Christian name...
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In the following review, Drabelle offers favorable assessment of The Birthday Boys.
Fifteen years ago an iconoclast struck what may be the most telling blow to an English reputation since Lytton St...
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In the following review, Krist offers favorable assessment of The Birthday Boys.
“All Englishmen are virtuous,” wrote George Orwell in his novel Burmese Days—“when they ...
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In the following review, Schaffer offers positive assessment of The Birthday Boys.
Nothing punishes like the cold. If you doubt this, remember how miserable you felt just a few months ago when wint...
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In the following review, Gamerman offers praise for The Birthday Boys.
The Antarctica of Beryl Bainbridge's novel The Birthday Boys is a land of “ice not really blue at all but shot t...
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In the following review, Freeman offers favorable assessment of The Birthday Boys.
The Birthday Boys, a new novel by the English author Beryl Bainbridge, is an imagined account of Capt. Robert Falc...
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In the following review, Spufford offers favorable evaluation of The Birthday Boys.
My grandmother was born in March 1911, the month in which this novel starts. Its famous events, then, are still i...
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In the following review Linklater offers praise for The Birthday Boys.
The fall of a hero produces a curiously intense sensation—a surge of libertarian delight pitted against pangs of filial...
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Three-year-old Cooper Lund's rendition of "Happy Birthday" included lines about living in a zoo and looking like a monkey, but the birthday boy and girl weren't insulted.
Kali and Kaz...
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On Thursday, Oct. 4, celebrity shutterbug Todd Eberle hosted a birthday party for himself at the new apartment he and his partner, creative director Richard Pandiscio, recently bought in the new 40...
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George W. Bush says he won’t raise taxes to pay for his war. “I strongly oppose that. If that’s the kind of sacrifice people are talking about, I’m not for it because raisin...
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Critical Review by Michael Cross
Happy Birthday to You, You Live in a Zoo
