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Why Modern Novels Can't Create Great Characters
Of all the qualities that make literature great, the most diminished in modern times is the art of the living, universal character.
Prose remains ascendant; plot has declined but retains strongholds here and there; since Dickens, characte...
21 Russian Classics Beyond Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky
The other Great Russian Novelists
I first heard of War and Peace during a childhood game of Trivial Pursuit. (What classic novel has over 600 characters in 1000 pages?) Even to a child who read 1000-page Dickens novels for fun, Russian lit...
What If Your Favorite Character Is a Terrible Person?
I finished Kingsley Amis’s The Green Man a few weeks ago but I can’t stop thinking about it. So, I guess I’ll have to write about it.
As someone relatively new to Amis, I wasn’t sure what to expect when I picked up the book at my local bo...
Why Edith Wharton's sexiest novel is still so controversial today
On the back cover of my copy of Summer by Edith Wharton, the publisher’s blurb is almost breathless:
“Beautifully sensuous, Summer is named for that never-to-be-repeated period when sexual love appears to be everything…when there can only...
7 short books to bust your reading slump
For #3, I did something I've never done before
We all have reading slumps, and July is definitely when I feel it most; something about the heat maybe; summer is no longer new. But there is opportunity too; lazy afternoons on porch hammocks...
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