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Empire of Unreality - First Things (opens the original)
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Shiva Naipaul (1945–1985) was the author of three novels and two books of mordant dispatches from places where civilization has the most tenuous hold, including Dar es Salaam, Lusaka, the Kenyan bush and Nairobi, the jungles and capital city of Guyana, and not least San Francisco. Born to Indian parents in Trinidad, and polished to a gloss at Oxford, he did not live long enough—a heart attack at forty—to rival in achievement his elder brother, the Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul. But what he wrote
The Sun Also Rises at 100 - First Things (opens the original)
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The Hemingway style—terse, direct, formidable, in both prose and personal deportment—dominated American literature and the native ideal of manliness for much of the twentieth century. His suicide in 1961, at the age of sixty-one, took most of the luster off his reputation for courage; but subsequent biographers have restored some of that virile cachet by recording the almost unbelievable succession of serious injuries and illnesses that bedeviled him for most of his life. It is astonishing that
The Priests of High Art - First Things (opens the original)
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Novelists, playwrights, and historians, Edmond and Jules de Goncourt (1822–1896 and 1830–1870) were also the supreme chroniclers of the Parisian literary and artistic life of their time. The diary that the brothers kept from the eve of the 1851 publication of their first novel (written in concert, like most of their works) appeared in nine volumes between 1886 and 1896. A virtuoso performance in higher gossip, the Journal records the misadventures of some of the leading writers of the age, with
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