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A Conversation with Author and McSweeney’s Editor Paul Collins
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Love Junkie by Rachel Resnick
March 13, 2025It takes an enormous amount of courage for Resnick to put her life story on the...
O Beloved Kids: Rudyard Kipling’s Letters to his Children
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George & Jacintha: On the Limits of Literary Biography
February 27, 2025The claim that George Orwell once tried to rape someone received scant attention in the United...

Coffee with… Series
February 26, 2025Barnes’s giant of the Western world is short, sharp, and funny, and well worth spending time...
My Father’s World
February 25, 2025In my father’s world, books are sacred objects. Authors are to be worshiped, especially those who...
Notes From Italy: Villains, Romance, and Views
February 24, 2025Filettino was not always a happy place, in history or in fiction. In the time of...
Lots in a Name
February 22, 2025Rather more subtle is Hercule Poirot, whose name contains elements of both “Hercules”, the classical hero,...
Murdering Miss Austen
February 16, 2025Jane Austen, whose sharp tongue barely left her cheek during her short lifetime, and, whose caustic...





