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John Ruskin famously disdained those who would waste time socializing, when staying home and reading great literature is so much the wiser use of our time. Our moment helps to demonstrate the opposite view, robustly endorsed by Dr. Samuel Johnson.
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Ann Kjellberg, editor Bookselling in a virtual world and how we hear voices that are not big and loud.
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Perversely, I ask you to consider the poetry of Wallace Stevens. A white man of inheritance and marked privilege—the education and attainments of the I…
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In a recent interview, Lucy Ellmann, author of Ducks, Newburyport, said “fiction is like a rock that sits there in your way. How do you break a rock? Y…
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