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From Jenny Uglow's chapter on the journalistic world of Henry Fielding to Marjorie Perloff's praise for the impact of the Internet on poetry reviewing, Grub Street and the Ivory Tower gives lively case-histories of the commercial and institutional contexts of writing about writing, especially the vexed relationship between journalism and academe.

Many believe - wrongly, as it turns out - that under Franco's dictatorship, nothing truthful or imaginatively worthwhile could be said or written or created. In the four decades since Franco's death foreign narratives - For Whom the Bell Tolls, Casablanca, Homage to Catalonia - still have greater credibility than Spanish ones.

A monumental reevaluation of the career of John Hersey, the author of HiroshimaFew are the books with as immediate an impact and as enduring a legacy as John Hersey's Hiroshima. First published as an entire issue of The New Yorker in 1946, it was serialized in newspapers the world over and has never gone out of print. By conveying plainly the experiences of six survivors of the 1945 atomic bombing and its aftermath, Hersey brought to light the...

A monumental reevaluation of the career of John Hersey, the author of HiroshimaFew are the books with as immediate an impact and as enduring a legacy as John Hersey's Hiroshima. First published as an entire issue of The New Yorker in 1946, it was serialized in newspapers the world over and has never gone out of print. By conveying plainly the experiences of six survivors of the 1945 atomic bombing and its aftermath, Hersey brought to light the...

This dazzling new biography brilliantly analyses the art and power of Pritchett's seemingly artless writings, and draws on a mass of hitherto unpublished letters and diaries to bring our 'English Chekhov' to vibrant, pungent life - 'a small man of big appetites and energies', melancholy yet hilarious, and often surprisingly passionate.

An open-minded and clear-eyed reexamination of the cultural artifacts of Franco's SpainTrue, false, or both?Spain's 1939-75 dictator, Francisco Franco, was a pioneer of water conservation and sustainable energy.Pedro Almodóvar is only the most recent in a line of great antiestablishment film directors who have worked continuously in Spain since the 1930s.As early as 1943, former Republicans and Nationalists were collaborating in Spain to promo...

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