Category Archives: Books

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Ursula K. Le Guin: Telling makes the world

Maria Popova has written on her wonderful website Brain Pickings about Ursula K. Le Guin’s essay on the nature of speech, “Telling is Listening.” This brought ...
The witches of A Wrinkle in Time

The radical leaps of A Wrinkle in Time

I was in sixth grade when I was swept up in the world of A Wrinkle in Time, part of the first generation of girls ...
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Kate Atkinson and quantum physics

Kate Atkinson has now won the Costa Book Award twice in the past three years—for her companion novels, A God in Ruins (2015) and the stunning ...