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Michael Dirda
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Michael Dirda is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post Book World. He is the author of the memoir An Open Book and several collections of essays. The latest, Classics for Pleasure, was published this fall.
Latest Articles
- Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights, Library Without Walls May 18, 2012
- A Dreamer of Mars: Edgar Rice Burroughs and John Carter, Library Without Walls March 9, 2012
- "We Revel in a Crowd of Any Kind": Dickens the Journalist, Library Without Walls February 7, 2012
- Journey to the Abyss: The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, Library Without Walls December 12, 2011
- Beyond the Veil: The Fiction of Arthur Machen, Library Without Walls October 28, 2011
- Arabian Sands, Library Without Walls October 10, 2011
- When the World Spoke French, Library Without Walls August 31, 2011
- Idle Reading, Library Without Walls July 29, 2011
- Tono-Bungay, Library Without Walls June 10, 2011
- The Vintage Thrillers of John Buchan, Library Without Walls April 22, 2011
- We, The Drowned, Library Without Walls February 25, 2011
- The Idle Pleasures of Jerome K. Jerome, Library Without Walls January 28, 2011
- Winter's Tales, Library Without Walls December 21, 2010
- The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard, Library Without Walls December 2, 2010
- The Ghost Stories of Lafcadio Hearn, Library Without Walls October 28, 2010
- A Visit to Don Otavio, Library Without Walls September 28, 2010
- The Long Ships, Library Without Walls August 27, 2010
- James Lees-Milne, Library Without Walls August 10, 2010
- The Letters of Pliny the Younger, Library Without Walls June 24, 2010
- A Reader on Reading, Library Without Walls May 7, 2010
- On the Shoulders of Giants, Library Without Walls March 5, 2010
- The Stories of Heinrich von Kleist, Library Without Walls February 5, 2010
- 2009: A Year in the (Reading) Life, Library Without Walls December 18, 2009
- The Poems of Thomas Hardy, Library Without Walls November 25, 2009
- Ecstasies, Library Without Walls October 30, 2009
- Hindoo Holiday, Library Without Walls September 23, 2009
- The Pillow Book, Library Without Walls August 17, 2009
- An Iranian Classic, Library Without Walls July 20, 2009
- After the Barbarians: From Gibbon to Auden, Library Without Walls June 29, 2009
- Elective Affinities, Library Without Walls March 30, 2009
- Lud-in-the-Mist, Library Without Walls December 29, 2008
- Lives of the Artists, Library Without Walls August 18, 2008
- The Life of Henry Brulard, Library Without Walls April 28, 2008
- Toga Tabloid: The Lives of the Caesars, Reviews & Essays February 25, 2008
- Winter's Tales, Library Without Walls December 24, 2007
- The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, Library Without Walls December 18, 2007
- Classics for Pleasure, In Brief November 19, 2007
