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SPLITTING THE VOTE
Young Nathan Zuckerman is preaching to his father about politics, but his father has some lessons too about what the Republican party is for.
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SEEING BRIGHT PICTURES
Charlotte Brontë receives some well meant advice from a more senior literary figure, which however she finds a little confusing.
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OTHER PEOPLE’S TRADES
Being a writer can be and has been combined with many other activities, manufacturing paint and varnish for example.
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QUIXOTE IN WICKLOW
When exactly was it that Protestant ascendancy began to decay in Ireland? In WB Yeats’s eloquent speech in the Irish senate in 1925 on...
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CHEKHOV’S HAMMER
“Behind the door of every happy, satisfied person,” wrote Chekhov in the story “Gooseberries”, “there ought to stand a man with a hammer whose...
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MESSING ABOUT WITH RHYME
There was an old man of San Remo
Whose verses were sometimes quite lameo.
While his middle lines rhymed
As their syllables chimed
His first and his fifth...
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MIŁOSZ IN HEAVEN
Cynthia L Haven wrote in a recent Times Literary Supplement essay (November 23rd) about the wave of commemorations and celebrations that attended the hundredth anniversary this...
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