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Because of the enormous advances publishers have to shell out for celebrity autobiographies, most have firmly, contractually attached ghostwriters. This arrangement ensures the books come out close to on time and presents the public with a coherent product for them to plunk down money to buy it — mass celebrity ghostwriting makes for more consistent, though often sanitized, reading experiences.
Among the back-cover accolades on Mel Brooks’s long-awaited autobiography is a glowing review from one Mel Brooks. Thus is the project’s tone established before one so much as cracks the spine.
Fifty years after its publication in 1971, Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose, winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, remains an enigma and a delight.
Each time I re-read The Great Gatsby, I am pleased to find it lives up to the hype of memory, which is appropriate for a novel about the inability of the past to live up to its reputation.
Winston Churchill helped save the world from the terror of Nazi Germany — and in return, the world’s bookstores have held an abundance of space on their shelves for Churchill.
Israel has been at war with Hamas since the start of the second intifada in 2000. This was accelerated by the Israeli disengagement from Gaza in 2005, leading to Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the Palestinian legislative elections in 2006.
It's not easy to think of a book referenced more in the political world than George Orwell's 1984. Perhaps that's because the temptation is bipartisan. "That's Orwellian!" is a common accusation uttered from either the Left or the Right whenever the government does or proposes something they find underhanded.