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Wednesday, October 21, 2026

My Struggle, Book Two: A Man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgaard

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Real life, ad nauseam About fifteen years ago, Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard made a big splash in the literary world with his six...
Monday, October 19, 2026

A Drama in Muslin by George Moore

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Realistic critique of the Victorian marriage market The Irish author George Moore (1852–1933) was an open admirer of the writings of Fren...
Wednesday, October 7, 2026

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

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Latin American Balzac Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014), winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature, is probably the ...
Monday, October 5, 2026

In Indian Mexico by Frederick Starr

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Pushy American studies the Natives I’ve traveled around Mexico quite a bit and developed an avid interest in that country’s history, art,...
Thursday, October 1, 2026

The Inner House by Walter Besant

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A love letter to class inequality The English author Walter Besant (1836–1901), though generally not known as a pioneer in the science f...
Monday, September 28, 2026

The Copernicus of Antiquity: Aristarchus of Samos by Sir Thomas Heath

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Very brief and awfully arcane In his popular book and television series of 1980, Cosmos , astronomer and author Carl Sagan includes a ch...
Friday, September 25, 2026

Crashing Suns by Edmond Hamilton

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Typical star wars fare American science fiction writer Edmond Hamilton’s career spanned from the late 1920s through the 1960s. His novell...