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19 days ago

John Updike: A Life in Letters review – the man incapable of writing a bad sentence

Friends, enemies and lovers animate more than 60 years of the author’s remarkable correspondence

John Updike had the mind of a middling middle-class postwar American male, and the prose style of a li…

30 days ago

3 months ago

We shouldn’t focus on ‘how bad slavery was’ says Trump. What’s next? | Francine Prose

Trump’s attacks on the Smithsonian are meant to convince us that truth doesn’t matter and we should blindly accept his lies

Donald Trump’s critique of the Smithsonian Institution for its focus on “how…

4 months ago

Ana Maria Gonçalves becomes first Black woman in Brazil’s literary academy

Author of Um defeito de cor wins seat in 128-year-old institution long dominated by white men

Brazil has elected its first Black woman to the Brazilian Academy of Letters, founded in 1897 and modelled…

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