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Frank Wilson is The Inquirer's Book Review Editor. He writes an "Editor's Choice" each Sunday in the Books section. His blog, Books Inq., offers a host of literary-minded links.
 
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Andro Linklater and Frank Wilson
The edges of character
Developing borders helped form the American experience.
By Frank Wilson, Inquirer Books Editor
Posted 07/01/2007
You would think that someone who had, among other things, painstakingly mapped the borders of Pennsylvania, meticulously laid out the street plan for the city of Washington, and traced the first national border of the United States would be a well-known and highly regarded figure.
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Amis' imagining of gulag suffering
By Frank Wilson, Inquirer Books Editor
Posted
Martin Amis is admirably concerned that the colossal atrocities inflicted upon Russia by the Soviet regime not be forgotten. Koba the Dread (2002), his meditation on the evil works and pomps of Stalin, while replete with a detailed litany of the horrors the paranoid Georgian set in motion, also established that "Uncle Joe" was simply continuing - on a far grander scale, of course - homicidal policies already well-established by Lenin and Trotsky.
 
'57 portrait of a society Philadelphian - 01/23/2007
By Frank Wilson, Inquirer Books Editor
Richard Powell's novel The Philadelphian has suffered a peculiarly Philadelphian fate: undeserved obscurity. Consider a parallel example: Not many people nowadays remember N.W. Ayer & Son, America's first advertising agency, founded in 1869, and coiner of such immortal slogans as "When it rains it pours," "I'd walk a mile for a Camel," and "A diamond is forever." But they probably would if the agency's city of origin had been someplace besides Philadelphia.


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