In this engrossing survey of the art of the letter, Thomas Mallon reads the mail of correspondents famous and obscure throughout history to celebrate, and memorialize, what may well be a vanished mode of everyday eloquence.
June 18: George Orwell's "As One Non-Combatant to Another" was published on this day in 1943. Orwell's poem arguing against pacifism quotes from Churchill's "finest hour" speech, delivered to Parliament and the nation on this day in…
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