Tag Archives: Literature
On Historical Fiction
by David Mitchell, acclaimed author of several novels, the latest of which is The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A Novel (Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2011) Around Christmas in 1994 in Nagasaki I got off at a wrong tram-stop and stumbled upon … Continue reading
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The Right Answer, And Other Nonexistent Things
by Thomas Mullen, author of Last Town on Earth (Random House, 2007). When reading works of fiction, students often think that there’s a right answer for how they’re supposed to respond to the book. Surely (as they’re sometimes taught in … Continue reading
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Why Jane Austen is THE Best Novelist of Our Time
by Susannah Carson, author of A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen (Random House, 2009). “Can Jane Austen’s novels be considered the best novels of our time?” “Why yes,” I responded, with the bewildered … Continue reading
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Why do YOU read Jane Austen?
For so many of us a Jane Austen novel is much more than the epitome of a great read. It is a delight and a solace, a challenge and a reward, and perhaps even an obsession. For two centuries Austen … Continue reading
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