Dan Brown thinks he knows Leonardo's secrets; so does Javier Serra and plenty of other novelists; but it's Ross King who's the true authority. With "Leonardo and 'The Last Supper' " (Walker & Company), he reveals the real circumstances -- minus all that business about Mary Magdalene and the Priory of Sion -- that led … Continue reading A frustrated failure and his masterpiece: new in bookstores
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Vague horrors on Halloween
Henry James couldn't write a ghost story (all you Jamesians out there, my apologies - I can't help saying that), but another James could. Not William. Not Alice. I'm talking about Montague Rhodes -- neither kith nor kin to the other three. James was the fellow who impressed H.P. Lovecraft - an old Etonian, bachelor … Continue reading Vague horrors on Halloween
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