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Dear Mr. Crusoe: Please stay home. There’s no need for this ruse of going on a trading journey, in which more often than not the goods you are trading…
Ann Kjellberg
“When I tried to read Donald Barthelme, anticipating his arrival as a teacher in the fledgling writing program at the University of Houston in 1981…
by Ann Kjellberg, editor One of the last freestanding book supplements, Bookforum, was closed this week. With its sense of play, gritty glamour, and…
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I have pondered a great deal over a conversation I took part in a number of years ago in one of the offices of New York University. I had lived away…
Ann Kjellberg
by Ann Kjellberg, editor The big boys of publishing think they know what readers want, but the avid readers of romance have for generations been turning…
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“I am distressed to see myself described as ‘the greatest spy novelist of the ‘Cold War era’... it puts me in the past,” said le Carré. One doubts that…
For reasons of both symbol and substance, foundings matter. Because the past is complex and its interpreters fallible, we need to keep returning to the…
To drift, to take whatever comes, is a poetic and spiritual discipline that 92-year-old poet Gary Snyder has mastered. He hikes and chants, bakes bread…
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It has seemed difficult for critics to separate novelist Jean Rhys’s artistic achievement from moral judgments of her mostly wretched life, plagued by…
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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming is a swift, abrasive, seemingly merciless book about the horrors that await us in our very near…
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from Michael Robbins There is a photograph of a classroom at the Virginia Military Institute: The cadets sit in a row, all crew cuts and pressed gray…
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