Limbering Up: John Keats as Handball Olympian
July 31st, 2012
On the politics of BBC's Doctor Who
March 30th, 2013
"No author writing today...can ignore the female reader."
February 7th, 2013
on Andrey Kurkov’s oddball Russian crime fiction.
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"The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future" is an experiment not in terror and not necessarily Dickensian.
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