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BiographyApril 22, 2015
The Old Consciousness
Hilary Mantel and Penelope Fitzgerald have saved historical fiction from a middlebrow wasteland.
Leo Robson
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Cultural Criticism and AnalysisMarch 27, 2013
Made in the USA? Letter From London
Books about London in its Olympic year and after see Americanization eroding the city’s gift for democratic gradualism.
Leo Robson
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January 9, 2013
Letters
“Financial, economic, military and political” inertia, fracking, National Socialism, Henry James, the Battle in Seattle
Our Readers and Leo Robson
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Books and IdeasOctober 23, 2012
The Master’s Servants: On Henry James
Nothing ages faster than the idea of an “ageless” writer. Consider the posthumous career of Henry James.
Leo Robson
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CultureJune 5, 2012
Ghosts and Machines: On Anne Tyler and Peter Carey
The Beginner’s Goodbye, The Chemistry of Tears and the burden of inheritance.
Leo Robson
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Autobiography and MemoirJanuary 18, 2012
All that Lore: On James Wolcott
The critic James Wolcott has been gamely fighting losing battles for most of his career.
Leo Robson