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- Adam Gopnik recommends 6 classic books for literature fans
  The Week via Yahoo News· 2 months ago
  Adam Gopnik. Adam Gopnik. Critic and essayist Adam Gopnik is a longtime staff writer for The New...
- Patrick French, renowned biographer of VS Naipaul and India, dies aged 56
  The Independent via Yahoo News· 3 months ago
  French is described by friends and peers as an ‘unfailingly generous’ human being whose writing...
- Shakespeare tale scoops nonfiction 'winner of winners' prize
  Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 month ago
  An engrossing account of “how Shakespeare became Shakespeare” has been named the greatest-ever...
- There is no 'Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf': a critic's requiem for all the forgotten books
  LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 months ago
  Author and Ultimate Bookshelf contributing editor David Kipen digs for treasure in a bibliography of...
- 6 books compete for nonfiction 'winner of winners' prize
  Associated Press via Yahoo News· 3 months ago
  Books that explore subjects from William Shakespeare and The Beatles to the lure of Mount Everest...
- From Cracker to Hagrid, larger-than-life Robbie Coltrane dominated the screen
  Press Association News via AOL· 8 months ago
  Perhaps best known for his role as Rubeus Hagrid in eight Harry Potter films, Robbie Coltrane OBE...
- Review: The real-life demons that drove Dostoevsky to write his masterpiece
  LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years ago
  The creditors whom Kevin Birmingham relied on to write “The Sinner and the Saint” — a dexterous biblio-biography about how “Crime and Punishment” came to be born — include a formidable array ...
- Ireland's ghost
  Washington Examiner via Yahoo News· 2 years ago
  Throughout A Ghost in the Throat, Doireann Ní Ghríofa drops disclaimers indicating that her story, a retelling of the life of 18th century Irish poet...