A digital sleuth has discovered an anonymously published 1852 serial novel by the poet, which survived in only a single copy of an obscure newspaper.
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Month: February 2017
Reader’s Notebook: A Different Kind of Dystopian Novel
In Philip Roth’s 2004 alternative history, Charles Lindbergh is in the White House, cozying up to the Third Reich.
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Fiction: Death and Disaster Stalk the Characters in Margaret Drabble’s New Novel
Margaret Drabble’s “The Dark Flood Rises” is a fictional road trip through various forms of “senior living” in Britain.
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By the Book: George Saunders: By the Book
The author, most recently, of “Lincoln in the Bardo” on his favorite genre: “I love reading anything about gigantic animate blobs of molten iron who secretly long to be concert pianists.”
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Fiction: Joyce Carol Oates’s Novel Plumbs the Depths of America’s Abortion War
Joyce Carol Oates tackles America’s abortion war in her new novel, “A Book of American Martyrs,” about the killing of a doctor and its aftermath.
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