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Cheryl Miller
Cheryl Miller is executive director at the Hertog Foundation.
Articles by Cheryl Miller
Rage Against the Machine
The tragic vision of Jonathan Franzen.
Reading Is Fundamental
A review of Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books, by Wendy Lesser
Keeping Up Appearances
A soap opera with a British accent. That's the critical rap on Downton Abbey, the cross-Atlantic hit series which in January returned to PBS for its third season.
The Divine Miss Jane
A review of Why Jane Austen?, by Rachel M. Brownstein
Feminist Action Hero
A review of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Book 1 of the Millennium Trilogy , The Girl Who Played with Fire: Book 2 of the Millennium Trilogy , and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest: Book 3 of the Millennium Trilogy , by Steig Larsson
Front Row of the Second Rate
A review of The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography, by Selina Hastings.
Simple Gifts
A review of Gilead: A Novel and Home: A Novel, by Marilynne Robinson
The Master
A review of The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology, by P.G. Wodehouse
The Genius of Old New York
A review of Edith Wharton, by Hermione Lee
The One That Got Away
A host of Melvilles have been invented for our times, yet the historical Melville remains opaque.