Discussion: Middlemarch for Book Clubs
/Open Letters Senior Editor Rohan Maitzen discusses her new ebook, Middlemarch for Book Clubs
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/Middlemarch is all the rage now – as it should be! But what if you’ve already read not just George Eliot’s masterpiece but all of her novels? Do not despair: these eight books will bring you close to her in spirit.
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/The books we reread say a lot about who we are or who we hope to be. They also shape us, as Rebecca Mead discovers in exploring her own long relationship with George Eliot’s Middlemarch.
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/A conversation about the enduring appeal of Pride & Prejudice.
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/Impressionistic, idiosyncratic, unsubstantiated: Virginia Woolf's literary essays challenge us to rethink, not just our experience of reading, but our expectations of criticism itself.
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/Elizabeth Hardwick joined the literary world of mid-20th century Manhattan with every intention of making her mark upon it - which she did, in review after inimitable review, taking American book-discourse to levels and places it had never reached before
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/The best of Anthony Lane's many New Yorker reviews and essays were collected in Nobody's Perfect, a big volume that amply displays this writer's wit and subtlety.
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/Colonialism, feminism, witchcraft, the Lord of Darkness — themes such as these once made Sylvia Townsend Warner's novels bestsellers. Now her charmingly subversive fiction is back in print.
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/It's fitting that Ahdaf Soueif is narrating this exciting new chapter in Egypt's history: for decades she has offered her readers richer, more complicated stories of the Middle East than the commonplace ones of submission and extremism.
Read MoreNo Heaven for Suckers
/He has become synonymous with amoral, cold-hearted political machination, but there was more to Machiavelli than that. A new biography attempts to look at the whole man.
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