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that odd phenomenon the novel. Sometimes it's hard to know whom they're are for, exactly. Enthusiastic readers? Fellow academics? Would-be writers? Aspects of the Novel, E.M. Forster's 1927 treatise on the "fictitious prose work over...

the pages of the book, I occasionally glance at Vincent's 1889 'Green Wheat Field with Cypress' on the wall of my living room, seeing it through new eyes as his thoughts and emotions unfold in his letters. I picked up a bottle of bourbon...

the pages. Kamiya-no, Toru-had supported her so much. Thinking about it made me start crying again. She would no longer find any trace of her life with Toru anywhere. If it happens, I’ll leave the rest in your hands. Toru, this is what...

is odd, and sometimes mind-doggling to follow the overheated debates of four decades ago. Irving Howe claimed in his memoirs that the polemic in America was partly due to feelings of guilt, pervasive, and unmanageable yet seldom (until...