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Tag: Books and Literature
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Milan Kundera: An Appreciation
His best novels, charged with a distrust of authority, retain their sweep and power.
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Milan Kundera, Czech Literary Star, Dies at 94
Mr. Kundera, the author of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” was known for sexually charged novels that captured the suffocating absurdity of life in his native Czechoslovakia.
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John le Carré’s Best Books
His clever, melancholic mind produced some of the most enduring heroes in spy fiction. Here are his best books.
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Behind ‘Oppenheimer,’ a Prizewinning Biography 25 Years in the Making
Martin Sherwin struck the deal and dove into the research. But it was only when Kai Bird joined as a collaborator that “American Prometheus” came to be.