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My Àntonia: Conclusion, Book Five
Cather’s endings always surprise me. We generally get a certain raggedness, a change of direction, a lingering ambiguity or uncertainty.
Mar 3
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Chris Benfey
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My Àntonia: Books Three and Four
Book Three works by juxtaposition—chaste Cleric versus sensual Lena. Book Four also has a divided focus, two pioneer women's stories, Ántonia’s bitter…
Feb 25
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Chris Benfey
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Review: Anakana Schofield on Clarice Lispector
Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector had a regular newspaper column in which she chatted with readers and considered everyday life. Anakana Schofield…
Nov 10, 2023
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Review: Joy Williams on Pip Adam
Joy Williams finds a New Zealand writer, now published in the US for the first time, who hit her like a wind of hurricane force. Introducing Pip Adam.
Oct 20, 2023
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Middlemarch: Finale
A great reading experience can be like a love affair or a journey—it lives on in memory and in our lives, it touches the way we understand our own…
Sep 3, 2023
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Mona Simpson
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Review: Edward Mendelson: (1) Translating the Bible
Three new books about translating the Bible reveal how the translation of sacred works gets to the very heart of translation itself.
Aug 11, 2023
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Review: (2) Àlvaro Enrigue on Cristina Rivera Garza
Rivera Garza has strained to make visible the machinery of suppression in a world ruled by violence and greed, machinery whose main expression is…
Jul 21, 2023
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Review: Joy Williams on Rachel Ingalls
(Drawing by Nicholson Baker) “She had a keen sense of the unrealness of people and event, the questionableness at the heart of the world … her best…
Jun 20, 2023
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Review: Anthony Domestico on Charles Portis
Talk about Charles Portis and you start acting like a character from Charles Portis. You pull people aside and assault them with enthusiasm, assuring…
May 19, 2023
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Book Sketch: Nicholson Baker reads Colm Tóibín
A special feature for subscribers, in which author Nicholson Baker considers a book that has caught his interest with some quotations and a drawing.
Mar 31, 2023
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Book Sketch: Nicholson Baker reads Michael Kimmelman
A special feature for subscribers, in which author Nicholson Baker considers a book that has caught his interest with some quotations and a drawing.
Feb 21, 2023
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Book Sketch: Nicholson Baker reads Alain Corbin
Book Sketch is a new special Book Post feature for subscribers, in which author Nicholson Baker considers a book that has caught his interest with some…
Feb 2, 2023
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