british lit
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Some Inheritance
Ian Parker profiles Edward St. Aubyn in this week’s issue of the New Yorker, delving into the “family disaster” that shaped much of the writer’s fiction: … [he] recalled some of his life’s most fraught experiences with steady irony, and…
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Paying Attention to the Short Story
The Telegraph’s Sam Baker says that the short story is experiencing a resurgence, both in the United States and Great Britain, thanks to technology. Suddenly, after years out in the cold, the short story finds itself a perfect fit for…
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Letterpress and Pictures, Literature and Art
Should art and literature be treated independently? The Paris Review Daily reports that the British Library has recently released an online collection of 1,200 Romantic and Victorian texts in the first phase of a plan to digitize various literary periods.…