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The Guardian’s Top 100 Novels list has a Hemingway problem
Why literary elites keep trying to shrink Hemingway
The Guardian recently published a list of the 100 greatest novels, and the internet has opinions.
111 Novels Worth Reading
A updated list for my most voracious readers
Despite not being one of the world’s foremost literary critics, I have strong opinions about books.
My 15 Favorite Novels With Happy Endings
Sometimes you need things to work out all right
Take a look at any “Top 100” list of novels and you’ll quickly notice that books with happy endings are in the minority.
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...
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