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How is it possible that Brazilian writer João Guimarães Rosa’s 1956 novel Grande Sertão: Veredas ( The Devil to ...

John A. Stuart, illustration from The Gray Cloth and Ten Percent White: A Ladies Novel , MIT Press, 2001 “…airships, th...

Jack Loudan’s O Rare Amanda! counts among the most embarrassing books I’ve encountered. The embarrassment - my own - ste...

In the unlikely event that readers may not yet have learned of plans for a May 2013 group read of João Guimarãe...

It’s February already? Perhaps it’s past time for an end of 2012 post, but here’s one anyway. Whether a reader may share in ...

Gustav III Opera House, Stockholm, ~1880 (Source: Svensk Arkitektur) Carl Jonas Love Almqvist’s 1834 work The Queen...

“…I rack my brains over the perpetual riddle of how this same people which so jealously watched over its rights a few ...