sam leith
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Judging a Book by More than Its Cover
Choosing the winner of the largest prize in English Literature is no easy task. Man Booker judge Sam Leith discusses the challenges of taking on this responsibility over at the Guardian.
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A Room of Chaucer’s Own
With the help of a wonderfully ingenious pattern of inferences — in particular an architectural drawing from 200 years later which happened to include a sketch of Aldgate’s north tower at its margins — Paul Strohm is able to reconstruct…