On the High Seas Patrick O'Brian: A Life Revealed By Dean King Holt. 398 pp. $27.50. Reviewed by Richard Lamb Richard Patrick Russ, born in 1914, was a man with a strong desire to hide....
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The Grand Group Dance From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky By Matthew Spender Knopf. 422 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Richard Lamb Some six years before his death at age 44 in 1948,...
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The Journalist and the Bore The Crime of Sheila McGough By Janet Malcolm Knopf. 176 pp. $22.00. Reviewed by Richard Lamb As a writer, Janet Malcolm is chiefly interested in betrayal, and...
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Obsessive Compulsive Theorizing The Picasso Papers By Rosalind E. Krauss Farrar Straus Giroux. 272 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Richard Lamb An old chestnut has it that the talented borrow...
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A Gift for Dispraise Max Beerbohm: Caricatures By N. John Hall Yale. 240 pp. $45.00. Reviewed by Richard Lamb Max Beerbohm as drawn by himself was a round-headed youth bearing a striking...
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