Seeing I
/Why do we read personal essays? A new collection reminds us: to see not just the world but the writer looking at the world, and back at us.
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/The indefatigable Joyce Carol Oates offers a wide variety of thoughts on books and the literary world in her new collection Soul at the White Heat. Britta Böhler reviews.
Read MoreEvery Cruelty
/a poem
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Sometimes the word friend is drained of meaning, but enemy, never.”
/A splendid new Jack Reacher novel and a posthumous gem by P.D. James – what better way to usher in the New Year?
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