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      <title>The Manufactured Star: How Trade Reviews Decide Which Books Get Noticed</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:48:06 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Hugo Marchetti</dc:creator>
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      <title>Four Englishes: Choosing a Translation of Crime and Punishment</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Which translation of Crime and Punishment should you read? Garnett (1914), McDuff (1991), Pevear & Volokhonsky (2002), and Ready (2014) compared.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Built Room: A Room of One&apos;s Own as Argument</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own (1929), from the Newnham and Girton lectures of 1928, reread as an argument about the material conditions of fiction.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Kept Hours: The Remains of the Day and the Butler&apos;s Voice</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Kazuo Ishiguro's Booker-winning The Remains of the Day (1989) reread: Stevens the butler, unreliability as ethics, restraint as form, and the 2017 Nobel.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Imani Brooks</dc:creator>
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      <title>The Fire and the Plain Wrapper: Wide Sargasso Sea and the Prequel Problem</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), the Jane Eyre prequel that won the W H Smith Literary Award, reread on the freedom — and the cage — of the form.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Imani Brooks</dc:creator>
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      <title>The Long March: Blood Meridian&apos;s Forty-Year Climb</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian (1985) failed with readers on release; forty years on it stands among the great American novels. A rereading of the climb.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Winter Terms: Rereading The Left Hand of Darkness</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Hugo and Nebula winner, reread: the gender experiment, the Ice, and the author's own corrections.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Hugo Marchetti</dc:creator>
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      <title>One Wednesday, Struck Twelve: Mrs Dalloway and the Single Day</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway (1925) reread as the perfected single-day novel: clocks, London, Septimus, and the answer to Ulysses.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Imani Brooks</dc:creator>
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      <title>The Slow Ascent: The Great Gatsby&apos;s Road Into the Canon</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Great Gatsby (1925) sold under 25,000 copies in Fitzgerald's lifetime; Armed Services Editions shipped some 150,000 more, and the canon followed.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Imani Brooks</dc:creator>
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      <title>The Better Original: One Hundred Years of Solitude in Translation</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Rabassa's 1970 English translation of One Hundred Years of Solitude reread: the author's famous verdict and what the English keeps of Macondo.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Quiet Verdict: Rereading Invisible Man Seventy Years On</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952), National Book Award winner of 1953, reread seventy years on: the design, the blind spots, the one-book career.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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