Features March 2021
The morality of the fat Owl
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On Frank Richards’s Billy Bunter series.
Topic: “Novels”
Reconsiderations February 2021
Isabel Colegate endures
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On the eighty-nine-year-old novelist’s best books.
Reflections January 2021
The ordinary ennobled
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On Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Reconsiderations February 2019
Sylvia & Michael on Sinister Street
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On the novels of Compton Mackenzie.
Oct 26, 2018
Week in review
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On the ghosts of Kirk, a séance for Gaskell, the trouble with Trilling & more.
Notes & Comments September 2018
V. S. Naipaul, 1932–2018
On the late Trinidadian-British writer.
Jun 30, 2018
Week in review
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On ballet, the Frick Collection, Spark’s fiery fiction & more.
Jun 28, 2018
The days are plenty long now
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On Willa Cather, Cos Cob, Connecticut, and The Country of the Pointed Firs.
Notes & Comments June 2018
Tom Wolfe, 1930–2018
On the late literary treasure.
Fiction chronicle May 2018
Not just remembrance
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On Nightmare in Berlin by Hans Fallada, Theory of Shadows by Paolo Maurensig, A Legacy of Spies by John le Carré & The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Koreaby Bandi.