Literature
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Pale Southern Gothic
Glenn Arbery’s southern novel struggles with non-white characters
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In Defense of Jane Austen’s Unlikable Heroine
Though lacking in charm and wit, Fanny Price educates the reader’s moral judgment. She’s worth a second look.
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Lessons of Esther for a Secular Age
A new book explores the American history of a Biblical tale
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Winning the West With Wit
A rollicking alternative history of George Armstrong Custer
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Two Centuries of Dostoevsky
For the long-suffering Russian novelist, all humanity is under a suspended sentence of death—yet his work is anything but despairing.
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Rocky Mountain Epigrams
Catharine Savage Brosman has crafted a volume of epigrammatic verse dedicated to landscape and stone, monument and mountain, solidifying her reputation as one of the finest poets of her age.
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A Pilgrim’s Progress
The former producer of William F. Buckley’s “Firing Line” has written a candid expression of faith, intoned in a literary, learned, and lively voice.
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Kazuo Ishiguro’s Suffering Servants
From the British class system to cloning and artificial intelligence, the relief of man’s estate comes at the cost of his soul in the works of this master.
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