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/Vita Sackville-West's granddaughter gives us an intimate look at seven generations of her famous family.
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Vita Sackville-West's granddaughter gives us an intimate look at seven generations of her famous family.
Read MoreWhy do we read the same story over and over? In Virginia Woolf's case, it's to learn again how great art emerged from her strange life of privilege and grief.
Read More“We must compensate the man for the loss of his gun,” wrote Virginia Woolf. Roxana Robinson's riveting novel challenges us to imagine how we can do that as we work for peace.
Read MoreOlivia Laing's digressive natural history of the 42-mile-long River Ouse is filled with philosophical meditations, childhood memories, and of course the ghost of Virginia Woolf.
Read MoreVirginia Woolf imagined the Almighty seeing us coming towards Paradise, books in hand: "We have nothing to give them, they have loved reading." But does reading always bring salvation?
Read MoreAdam Nicolson chronicles his work bringing Sissinghurst castle and its grounds up to date--the delusions of a "hippie-squire" or the worthy restoration of a storied estate?
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