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    2025 Archive (3 found)

    A Portrait of the Scholar

    June 1, 2025  | 

    Does biography illuminate the work of an artist? James Joyce slyly poked at this age-old question in his 1922 novel Ulysses. In one of the book’s many meandering scenes, Stephen Dedalus and a group of literary associates banter

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    Ink-Stained Life

    May 20, 2025  | 

    Before he became a spy or a novelist, Ian Fleming was a newspaperman. In 1933 he reported for Reuters on a blockbuster show trial in the Soviet Union in which a group of British engineers faced trumped-up charges of espionage.

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    A Book-Lined Retreat

    February 20, 2025  | 

    Picture a humble study. It is situated on a house’s second floor, near the bedrooms, forming an inner sanctum removed from the bustle of the street. A lamp sits on a desk to give a working writer plenty of light. Books line the walls from floor to ceiling

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