While William LeQueux was the father of the espionage novel, E. Phillips Oppenheim made the genre his own. Like LeQueux, Edgar Wallace, and many other mystery novelists of his generation, E. Phillips ...
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EXIT GHOSTBy Philip RothHoughton Mifflin, 304 pages, $26
What to do when the best living American novelist writes a weak book? The New Yorker solved the problem (in the Oct. 1 issue) with an extend...
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Only live to a great age and you can become a hero. For much of his life, I.F. Stone was a marginal figure in American journalism, neither persecuted nor impoverished but sometimes harassed by the ...
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Only live to a great age and you can become a hero. For much of his life, I.F. Stone was a marginal figure in American journalism, neither persecuted nor impoverished but sometimes harassed by the ...
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“I can think of a lot of people,” Dean Baquet said, “who are more capable than I am to be budget minders.”
Mr. Baquet was sitting in his office on the edge of the Los Angel...
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“I can think of a lot of people,” Dean Baquet said, “who are more capable than I am to be budget minders.”Mr. Baquet was sitting in his office on the edge of the Los Angeles...
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The Great Secret
E(dward) Phillips Oppenheim
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