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When Poets Speak of Life and Speak in Prose
Reviewing Maya Angelou’s ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’ and Gwendolyn Brooks’s ‘Maud Martha’
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Ideas from Outside the Mind
Reviewing Two John Wyndham Sci-Fi Classics, ‘The Chrysalids’ and ‘Chocky’
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Book Deal? Done. Now I’ve Got 9 Months to Finish Writing
You Guessed It: I’m Writing a Book about Books. Here’s the Backstory.
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Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy
Reviewing ‘All the Pretty Horses,’ ‘The Crossing,’ and ‘Cities of the Plain’
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C.S. Lewis: Before Narnia
When We Didn’t Know Jack. Reviewing ‘C.S. Lewis in America’ by Mark Noll
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Bookish Diversions: Lights, Camera, Bookmarks!
Shōgun, 3 Body Problem, Netflix, J.K. Rowling, TV as Religion, TV as Literature, More
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March 2024

What’s My Point? Consider the Pencil
The Evolution of an Underrated Tool, Plus Its Famous Users: Thoreau, Morrison, Dahl, Steinbeck, More
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When Life Betrays You, Only Love Remains
Reviewing Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer-Winning Novel, ‘The Bridge of San Luis Rey’
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Bookish Diversions: The Bits We Usually Ignore
Dedications, Acknowledgements, Footnotes, More
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Sideways Truth: Writing in a Totalitarian Regime
Reviewing ‘Heart Sutra’ and ‘The Day the Sun Died’ by Chinese Novelist Yan Lianke
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Hunger for Connection: Being Known by Finding Your Voice
Fighting with Words: Reviewing Richard Wright’s Classic Memoir, ‘Black Boy (American Hunger)’
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When Science Went Global
Reviewing ‘Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science’ by James Poskett
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