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Jeffrey Archer on His Favorite Books and His Final Novel

“London Falling” and “Dissection of a Murder” were among his recent favorite books. “War and Peace” and “A Clockwork Orange” went unfinished.

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Woodworking, building computers, photography — why is so much of Francis Fukuyama’s memoir concerned with his hobbies?

Woodworking, building computers, photography — why is so much of Francis Fukuyama’s memoir concerned with his hobbies?

William T. Vollmann's publisher insisted he shorten his novel. “I said, ‘I cut it, but I’m really sorry but unfortunately, it’s like 400 pages longer now”

Why don’t little magazines like n+1, The Point, and The Drift produce more book reviews? Ross Barkan details an emerging problem

Why don’t little magazines like n+1, The Point, and The Drift produce more book reviews? Ross Barkan details an emerging problem

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Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Author of Seminal Anticolonial Novel, Dies at 98

“The real secret to beating envy is to realize that envy, in addition to being a great vice and an internal poison, is a drag”