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Book of the Day Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce – review Colm Tóibín’s examination of three writers’ relationships with their fathers is full of insight and intrigue Rachel Cooke Does every man secretly desire his father’s death? The great biographer Richard Ellmann believed there was something in this idea, noting that it recurs ..

로마노프 미스터리와 러시아 혁명 (1997년에 번역된 책 전문) - 돌아가신 나의 어머니 메어리 엘렌 ‘테디’ 베어드 에반스, 그리고 나의 사랑하는 가족 클라우드 포울린, 헤어 및 파리스 에게 이 책을 바친다 - 감사의 글 이 책을 내는 데 꼭 필요했던 분들에게 드리는 나의 제일 첫 번째 감..

Show me your identificationIdentity politics may divide us. But ultimately we can’t unite without it. By Carlos Lozada The Washington PostOctober 18, 2018 .pb-f-page-comments{margin-left:174px;margin-right:174px;max-width:100% !important}@media only screen and (max-width:1083px){.pb-f-page-comments{margin-left:0;margin-right:0}}@media only screen and (max-width:768px){.pb-f-p..

Death of a bookman: the rise and fall of a publisher SALLY EMERSONStandpointOctober 2018 “Books and Bookmen” covers from January and February 1980, when Sally Emerson was editor. “I am very pleased with Jan 80 b and b cover design. Congrats!” wrote Philip Dosse On Tuesday August 24, 1980 I arrived a few minutes late at the office in Victoria where I edited Books and Bo..

Personal HistoryGrowing Up in the LibraryLearning and relearning what it means to have a book on borrowed time.By Susan Orlean The New Yorker October 5, 2018 Illustration by Lilli Carré I grew up in libraries, or at least it feels that way. My family lived in the suburbs of Cleveland, about a mile from the brick-faced Bertram Woods Branch of the Shaker Heights Public Library ..

Books Perspective Perspective Discussion of news topics with a point of view, including narratives by individuals regarding their own experiences Do we really still need Banned Books Week? Ron Charles Critic, Book World Email Bio Follow Critic, Book WorldThe Washington Post, September 26, 2018 If you tell anyone, I’ll deny it, but I’ve been irritated for a long time by Bann..

The Most Unread Book Ever Acclaimed By Meghan O’Gieblyn The Paris ReviewSeptember 19, 2018 Arts & Culture Like the holy books, long novels are more often maligned than read. Critics complain that they are exasperating, or impossible, or not worth the time. But in the history of my reading life, I’ve encountered nothing like the caveat lectors surrounding Margurite Young’..

Helen DeWitt’s The Last Samurai Is the Best Book of the Century (for Now) By Christian Lorentzen Vulture, Sept. 17, 2018 Helen DeWitt’s The Last Samurai. Photo: Courtesy of the publisher Ask a set of writers and critics to select books for a new canon, and it shouldn’t come as a shock that the one most of them name is a novel about the nature of genius. It is also, more ..

After the Bombs FellImagining nuclear war with North Korea Ethan Epstein Weekly StandardSeptember 2, 2018 at 5:30 AM In Jeffrey Lewis’s novel, millions of people have died in North Korean nuclear attacks. STR / AFP / Getty Works of fiction that purport to be collections of documents—let’s call them “assemblage novels”—are hard to pull off. The Scottish writer Graem..

Great Books in a Digital Age? James Poulos National Affairs 2018 Summer Issue Ours is a time of institutional crisis. It is our institutions that are in crisis, and because they dominate and define our public order, it is our institutions that have plunged us into crisis. While a host of reasons might be summoned to explain how and why this is so, the identifying mark of our d..