“Y es—oh, dear, yes —the novel tells a story, ” E. M. Forster wrote. “I wish that it was not so. ” Julian Barnes has confessed that as a young man reading Aspects of the Novel, he found this sentiment...
01.13.2026 Theatlantic.com and 1 sitesThrough no fault of his own, the author Sir Salman Rushdie has become the English-speaking world’s premier purveyor of writing about death. The brutal reason for this is that, on August 12, 2022, Rush...
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Converts: From Oscar Wilde to Muriel Spark, Why So Many Became Catholic in the 20th Century by melanie mcdonagh yale university press, 368 pages, $38 Conversion is a gift of grace, yet human hands par...
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