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Cold War Interlude

REVIEW: ‘The Predicament’ by William Boyd

Days of Wine and Junkets

REVIEW: 'Empire of the Elite: Inside Condé Nast, the Media Dynasty that Reshaped America' by Michael M. Grynbaum

A Mediocre Meal of a Memoir

REVIEW: ‘I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir’ by Keith McNally

Lorne’s Prime Time

REVIEW: ‘Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live’ by Susan Morrison

Putting the Thrill Back in the Spy Thriller

REVIEW: 'Gabriel's Moon' by William Boyd

Elizabethan Drama

REVIEW: ‘Q: A Voyage Around the Queen’ by Craig Brown

One Hell of a Deal

REVIEW: 'Devil's Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain' by Ed Simon

The Pen Was Mightier

REVIEW: ‘Knife: Meditations after an Attempted Murder’ by Salman Rushdie

Royal Revision

REVIEW: ‘Once a King: The lost memoir of Edward VIII’ by Jane Marguerite Tippett

Infernal Affair

REVIEW: 'Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor' by Roger Lewis