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Review
Mitford’s Good Fight
February 23, 2011 04:43 PMPoison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking by Jessica Mitford | New York Review Books Classics | 274 pages, $15.95 The merry muckraker Jessica Mitford, who died in 1996, was among the sharpest British imports since Cheddar cheese. Sixteen... Continue reading
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Head Case
April 8, 2010 03:01 PMReporting at Wit’s End: Tales from The New Yorker | By St. Clair McKelway | Bloomsbury | 619 pages, $18 It’s no secret that New Yorkers nest in cramped, costly pens. The mystery concerns what else they do in those... Continue reading
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