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Morris, Alive that is... in paperback!

Dec 1

Virgil's Georgics: Love and loss, life and death, man and nature...

Nov 23

Plus Borges in Buenos Aires, a poem called Someone and a call to advanced readers...

Nov 16

What to read: A guide for mere mortals

Nov 9

Recollections from a modern flâneur in Paris

Nov 2

From Dickens to Melville, Tolstoy to Orwell, Nabokov to Bellow, what's your favorite opener?

Oct 26

Plus Emily Dickinson's Chariot, Mr. Faulkner's furtive widow and Leo Tolstoy's head...

Oct 20

The wild wine that leads us on... to boutique bookstores and Victorian druggists!

Oct 12

Following James Joyce's heroic everyman, the original Modernist Flâneur...

Oct 5

100 years ago, a philosopher and a physicist debated the nature of time...

Sep 29

Bellow's famous variation on Gresham's Law

Sep 21

Borges imagined a kind of library; Buenos Aires imagined a kind of Borges.

Sep 14

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