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In All Passion Spent (1931), Vita Sackville-West’s eighty-eight-year-old protagonist thinks back over her life: “She had plenty of leisure now, day in, day out, to survey her life as a tract of...
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Thomas Hardy fully understood, from early on in his career, that the production of a novel, or short story, took place both in the realm of artistic creation and in the literary marketplace. He eventually...
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Barack Obama was the empathy president. I don’t say this simply because of some of his more famous uses of the term—for example, when he described his criteria for Supreme Court nominees in May 2009...
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Writing a big book makes you wary of generalizations. My new book, The Cambridge Introduction to Satire, discusses satire from Lysistrata to The Daily Show, and if there’s one thing I discovered in...
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2019 marks the tercentenary of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719), a novel that achieved instant popularity in Britain (Defoe wrote a sequel, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, which appeared...
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I’ve been reading Austen since childhood, and I am only half joking when I say that if you put me under light hypnosis, I could probably recite Pride and Prejudice word for word in its entirety. Between...
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It was in the 1970s, in the course of some local history research in the London Borough of Camden, that I discovered quite by chance a grave in the old churchyard of St-John-at-Hampstead, in which Jane...
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In All Passion Spent (1931), Vita Sackville-West’s eighty-eight-year-old protagonist...
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Thomas Hardy fully understood, from early on in his career, that the production of...
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Barack Obama was the empathy president. I don’t say this simply because of some...
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Writing a big book makes you wary of generalizations. My new book, The Cambridge...
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2019 marks the tercentenary of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719), a novel that...
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I’ve been reading Austen since childhood, and I am only half joking when I say...
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It was in the 1970s, in the course of some local history research in the London Borough...
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