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This Will Be Difficult to Explain and Other Stories
“I would like you to write a simple story just once more,” a dying man says to his daughter in Grace Paley’s “Conversation With My Father.” He asks that she, like Maupassant or Chekhov, create “recognizable people and...more
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The Lower River
The central character in Paul Theroux’s latest novel, “The Lower River,” is an American named Ellis Hock who decides to return to Africa after an absence of almost 40 years. Life in his own country has become tiresome and...more
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Farther Away
As we should all know by now, Jonathan Franzen is a serious writer who plays for the highest literary stakes, who is uncomfortable with American TV consumerism, and whose last two novels, “The Corrections” and “Freedom,”...more
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Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens
Next time you find yourself grousing when the passenger in front reclines his seat a smidge too far, consider the astronomers of the Enlightenment. In 1761 and 1769, dozens and dozens of stargazers traveled thousands of miserable...more
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In One Person
“We are formed by what we desire,” says Billy Dean, the fatherless narrator and chief hero of John Irving’s 13th novel, “In One Person.” Irving likes to track his characters over long stretches of time. “In One...more
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