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BOOKS The Limits of Braininess TOM DEIGNAN There is a scene in Nathan Hill’s hilarious, terrifying, and dazzling new novel in which his married protagonists, Jack and Elizabeth, stroll into...

G-Man by Beverly Gage (April 2023)

Circle in the Public Square TOM DEIGNAN In the final season of the British crime drama Peaky Blinders, a gangster-turned-MP explains why he is able to work with socialists as well as...

Old Towns, New Havens (November 2022)

Old Towns, New Havens TOM DEIGNAN The “three newcomers” in Susan Hartman’s intimate, powerful new book are Sadia, an outspoken, effervescent high-school student from Somalia; Mersiha, a...

Payback (January 2021)

BOOKS Fueled by Contempt TOM DEIGNAN PAYBACK A Novel mary Gordon Pantheon $27.95 | 352 pp. TOM DEIGNAN contributes regularly to Commonweal, and has written about books for the New York Times,...

The Princeton History of Modern Ireland (September 2016)

Tom Deignan Don't Blame the Brits The Princeton History of Modern Ireland Edited by Richard Bourke & Ian McBride Princeton University Press, $45, 526 pp. Earlier this year, around St. Patrick's...

Small Mercies (September 2015)

Tom Deignan A Borough Apart Small Mercies Eddie Joyce Viking, $27.95, 368 pages Afew months after the terror attacks of 9/11, the New Yorker ran a cover imagining New York's boroughs as Middle...

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro (February 2002)

LIFE IN A SENTENCE Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories Alice Munro Tom Deignan On the halcyon days before he became Oprah Winfrey's sparring partner, National Book...

The Rackets (September 2001)

THE IRISH SOPRANOS The Rackets Thomas Kelly Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $24, 384 pp. Tom Deignan The Tara Irish Gift Shop on 207th Street in Manhattan, way uptown in Inwood, recently...

The Body Artist (April 2001)

SENSATION & SENSIBILITY The Body Artist Don DeLillo Scribner, $22,128pp.::: Tom Deignan Leave it to Don DeLillo to follow up Underworld with a slim novella that conceivably could be used...

DeJong, David Cornel

DELANEY, EDMUND T.

Delaney, Muriel Nolan

Delany, Selden P.

Delany, Selden Peabody

Delattre, Pierre H.

Delattre, Pierre Henri

DeLaura, David J.

Delbanco, Andrew

Delbanco, Anrew

Delehanty, Thornton

Delfosse, Jean