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Forgetting and forgetfulness

I like this questioning of cause versus effect in the writing - and reading - of novels. Does writing and...

But the novel improves immeasurably in the reading. ‘Her life at this time was a mere paragraph in a novel.’

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Banffy's trilogy of novels on the slow but certain self-destruction of the 19th century Hungarian aristocracy includes the figure of...

A beautiful description of a large-hearted calming character, who has a benign influence on those around him. We need more...

You can't but help like such a maverick, something in the moss-coloured eyes, and the difference between him and the...

Bronte has a sometimes arresting pithiness, and here she provides an explanation for the hatred underlying riots and machine wrecking...

Stumbled across an excellent documentary by Priscilla Pizzato, Life and Fate by Vasili Grossman (in French, with English subtitles) on...

Taleb is an erudite and provocative writer, sometimes coming across as intellectually arrogant, though always interesting. Here he shows a healthy...