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“We read Woolf for her tone – her equanimity, her ability to weave together a detached and usually very severe critical judgement with a tone of ruminative engagement. That’s a tone, as much as Beerbohm’s is in another way, which seems to me particularly enviable.” Read more...
Adam Gopnik on his Favourite Essay Collections
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Our most recommended books
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To the Lighthouse
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Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader
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A Sad Heart At The Supermarket
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The Hands of the Living God: An Account of a Psychoanalytic Treatment
by Marion Milner -
Visions Before Midnight
by Clive James -
Had I Known: Collected Essays
by Barbara Ehrenreich