What makes a work of art or literature memorable is not only the craft involved, but its truth. A work doesn't have to depict "real" events to ring true. Just recently, an example came up when I read a book by Daniel Silva, the bestselling writer of a series of thrillers based around a fictional Mossad agent and art restorer, Gabriel Allon. In Silva's "The English Girl," a minor and authentic …
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