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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 | Aug 12, 2025

Abdulrazak Gurnah won the Nobel Prize for literature “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and…

by | Aug 3, 2025

The Catholic Church will soon have a new Doctor of the Church: the English convert, theologian, author, and poet St….

by | Jul 9, 2025

Forget James Bond. George Minden was the real thing. A Romanian aristocrat by birth, he could have spent his days…

by | Jul 5, 2025

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

by | Jul 4, 2025

A quiet crisis is consuming the world of literature, and no one seems to care. Male writers are vanishing —…

by | Jun 13, 2025

The Orwell Foundation, which has done such good work in promoting the study of George Orwell’s writings, has released a…

by | May 13, 2025

Let’s begin with a simple disclaimer: everyone is entitled to write a novel. Celebrity or not, influencer or not, no…

by | Apr 25, 2025

Herodotus of Halicarnassus conceived of history as a collective act of cultural heritage preservation, an effort “to prevent the traces…

by | Apr 24, 2025

Well, it looks as if it’s time once again for my more or less annual piece about Joan Didion. I…

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