Reading Guides

A beginner’s guide to reading dense modernist novels without getting lost

There is a special kind of pleasure in getting inside a dense modernist novel: the sensation of being tested, of having to slow down and think differently. But that pleasure is fragile. Read too...

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How to choose overlooked twentieth-century novels that repay slow reading

When I think about the twentieth-century novels that have stayed with me longest, they’re almost always the ones that arrived quietly into my life—pulled from a mis-shelved pile in a charity...

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