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January 13, 2012

The Brontës

A stirring group biography of all three Brontë sisters: who among us can resist a subtitle like "Wild Genius on the Moors"?  Demolishing the hearsay that has plagued past Brontë bios, Juliet Barker delivers a definitive account of this remarkable family and the literary world they imagined into being.

Daybook

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

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In the Margin

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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