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In the final pages of The Rings of Saturn, W.G. Sebald imagined ‘the depths of despair into which those can be driven who, even after the end of the working day, are ...

Michael Newton writes:

In ‘On the Circuit’, a poem about the circle of purgatory reserved for touring poet-lecturers, W.H. Auden mentioned the moments of unanticipated connection:

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Literary biographer Claire Harman Charlotte Brontë‘s life contained all the drama and tragedy of the great Gothic novels it inspired. She was raised motherless on remote ...

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A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer