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by | Nov 15, 2025

Wendell Berry, in his 92nd year of life, has just come out with a new novel, Marce Catlett: The Force…

by | Oct 19, 2025

Some time ago, the fine American novelist Walter Kirn (Up in the Air, Mission to America) issued some words of…

by | Aug 16, 2025

Real men don’t eat quiche, as we learned from Bruce Feirstein’s amusing 1982 spoof book of the same name. Every…

by | Jul 9, 2025

Co je napsáno, to nesmyješ. [What is written, you cannot wash away.] — Czech proverb The Czech writer, editor, and…

by | Jul 5, 2025

Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship By Dana A. Williams Amistad | 368 pages | $21 Some brief…

by | Jun 20, 2025

Once, long ago, anyone who took a college freshman English class would have encountered T.S. Eliot’s famous poem, The Waste…

by | Apr 1, 2025

Arguably America’s finest writer of the 20th century, Flannery O’Connor was born 100 years ago. Although she has been dead…

by | Feb 18, 2025

I have just finished reading the latest book by a man with gray hair, almost snow white, perhaps snow with…

by | Feb 4, 2025

In 1981-82, my third year as a graduate student in English at Stony Brook University on Long Island, I shared…

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