Inside the List

“Cleopatra,” Stacy Schiff’s biography of the Ptolemaic tabloid queen, joins a hardcover nonfiction list full of celebrity memoirs.

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Short takes

James Kaplan charts the improbable rise, crash-and-burn and even more improbable revival of Frank Sinatra's career.

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Pity the People in Richler's Embrace (in Tyee Books)

What if Mordecai the Brilliant and many other writers had left their families and lovers in peace?

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