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Our enduring Tudor obsession

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Betrayal, collusion, spying: Exploring a swing from extreme left to right

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A real-life "Game of Thrones"

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Mantel is not an assassin

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Sex, crime and landladies

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A black Huck Finn

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A Gothic cathedral of plot

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A World War II do-over

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Shady Swedes! Powdered wigs!

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Hilary Mantel's power play

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"GOT's" real-life inspirations

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The Tea Party's soapy new historical drama

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Doc Holliday, as you've never known him

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History Channel hires reality guru for Bible show

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A deliciously old-school French bodice-ripper

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What Michele Bachmann doesn't know about history

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Bachmann shock: Gore Vidal made her a Republican

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Queen Victoria to literature: Where is the love?

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Secrets and lives

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Summer reads

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Ursula K. Le Guin celebrates early Rome

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The fall of the house of Pynchon

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Indian bummer

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"The Night Watch"

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Interview with ... Jesus?

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"The March" by E.L. Doctorow

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"The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova

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My "Outlander" thing: How a brainy guy like me wound up reading historical romances

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