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Is THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOK a Feminist Book?

Doris Lessing denied she was championing Women's Liberation. So why, five decades later, is THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOK still seen as a feminist classic?

On Being (Sp)Read Too Thin: The Paradox of Reading Choice

“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.” So says Bilbo Baggins in The Fellowship of ...

Nobel Prize Trivia Time!

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The Cat’s Meow: Books to Read to your Feline Friends

The best books to read to and about cats.

8 Writers Over 80

Philip Roth may not exactly have been in his prime when he “retired” from writing last year at the spry ...