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In the Current Issue: At the age of thirty-seven William Morris went off to Iceland to reassess his life (or lives) to date. From a sunny, well-heeled childhood – his father was a bill broker who died shortly and luckily before his business collapsed – Morris went to rough-tough Marlborough, where he learnt next to nothing because, he said, 'next to nothing was taught', and on to Exeter ...
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Dickens by Peter Ackroyd - review by Bryan Appleyard - Literary …
‘To see Dickens day by day,’ writes Peter Ackroyd, ‘making his way, the incidents of his existence shaping his fiction just as his fiction alters his life, the same pattern of emotion and imagery rising up from letters and novels and conversations, the same momentum and the same desire for control – to see Dickens thus is to turn biography into an agent of true knowledge…’
The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That ...
Sarah Weinman explores the real-life story of Sally Horner, who was kidnapped by a man who inspired Nabokov's Lolita, and the novel that scandalized the world. The book is a unique and peculiar blend of true-crime and literary analysis, but it …
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates - review by Elaine Showalter
A few years ago, I was talking to Joyce Carol Oates, who teaches Creative Writing at Princeton University, about a poem she had written describing a deer in her garden.
Essays on Realism - Literary Review
Georg Lukac’s fan-club has been dwindling steadily over the past decade. Spurned by liberals as a Stalinist hack, he has also drawn increasing flak from an oedipal Left which, weaned on his writings, has now sought to oust him.
Snow Country by Sebastian Faulks - review by Simon Baker
In Vienna in 1913, an aspiring journalist named Anton Heideck is shrugging off a provincial, bourgeois background in the most impeccably Viennese way: by listening to Schoenberg and questioning himself deeply.