Jan. 31, 2025 It goes largely unacknowledged but is nonetheless true that a complete accounting of any country’s literary geniuses will include several writers for children. Near the top of the ...

Edited by Juliana Barbassa and Jennifer Harlan Chicago is a city of bookish abundance, home to countless literary giants past and present. The author Rebecca Makkai recommends works that capture ...

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Throughout her life, Levin Varnhagen consciously fashioned a literary persona. She was aware that her correspondence might circulate not only among members of her immediate circle but also beyond. As ...

Sir Peter Russell (1913–2006) was King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies at Oxford from 1953 until his retirement in 1981. He was also Director of Portuguese Studies, and the author of a ...

That handoff is a nice piece of literary tradecraft – a brush contact, you could call it. The one character whose head we never inhabit is, of course, Lamb himself, around whose ‘monstrous calm’ the ...

Just before his death, the speechless Kafka scrawled this wry joke on a conversation slip: ‘Tremendous amount of sputum, easily, and still pain in the morning. In my daze it went through my head that ...

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