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New Grub Street

Katherine Mullin and George Gissing

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'Because one book had a sort of success he imagined his struggles were over.' Scholarly, anxious...

Duino Elegies

Rainer Maria Rilke, M.D. Herter norton and David Young

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We have a marvelous, almost legendary, image of the circumstances in which the composition of this...

Otto and Daria: A Wartime Journey Through No Man's Land

Eric Koch

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A poignant memoir of lives cleaved by war, this is the first-hand account of Eric Koch, a man who...

David Lowery recommended Roma (2018) in Movies (curated)

Roma (2018)

2018 | Drama

7.4

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"Why not see this movie twice? Even if you don’t like it, it’s worth revisiting. Films like this don’t come along that often, or perhaps ever. Granted, I suspect that it’s far more exciting for filmmakers than for general audiences, just because Cuaron did with this movie what we all wish we could do: he took his time. It’s easy to make comparisons to Proust, except that the film isn’t really Proustian; it isn’t fluid enough, it doesn’t resemble the memories it’s based on but the real events that begat them. It’s closer to Knausgard in that regard, but let me dispense with literary comparisons because this is a movie with a capital M: it’s been declaring itself so very loudly all fall, and I’m happy to join the chorus."

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Alexis M. Smith recommended Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present in Books (curated)

"On Christmas of 1994, I was fifteen and had just come out to my family. I was also an aspiring writer who adored Virginia Woolf. I put Chloe Plus Olivia on my Christmas list, not expecting anyone to actually seek out an anthology of lesbian literature and buy it for me. But my dad did: he made a special trip to the University Bookstore in Seattle; he wrapped it and put it under the tree for me. I devoured the book, took it to college with me years later, then moved into my first apartment with it when I was twenty. It’s long gone now (lost in another move), but I still remember it fondly as a formative literary text, and as a sign that my dad loved and supported me without hesitation."

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