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John Mullan
The best vendettas in literature
Before it was ever a film, <i>The Godfather</i> was a novel by Mario Puzo centring on the murderous vendetta between two New York Mafia families.
Dropping in on Austen’s own reading group
The notion of testing yourself against Austen’s novels would not have been so unfamiliar to their author.
A rebel spelling revival
Often in the past, reformers have proposed phonetic alternatives to the difficult, apparently arbitrary spellings of English. Usually they have been earnest scholars or radical…
The art of online seduction
Perhaps you thought there could be nothing new in affairs of the heart. Think again. ”Computers have changed not just the way we work but the way we love.” So declares Aaron…
Uniform edition
US troops in the frontline are getting an ”armed services edition” of books calculated to inspire them. This idea fits in with a long tradition of literature for soldiers, writes .