- Michael Dirda
- Critic
Michael Dirda is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post Book World and the author of the memoir “An Open Book” and of four collections of essays: “Readings,” “Bound to Please,” “Book by Book” and “Classics for Pleasure.” Dirda was born in Lorain, Ohio, graduated with highest honors in English from Oberlin College, and received a Ph.D. in comparative literature (medieval studies and European romanticism) from Cornell University.
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Steven Nadler’s fascinating survey of Golden Age Dutch culture, Cartesian philosophy and art connoisseurship.
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A supernatural mystery tale by Oliver Onions (1873-1961) stands with the best of its genre.
‘The Letters of William Gaddis’
The novelist won National Book Awards for “J R” and “A Frolic of His Own.”
No map, but still a vivid picture of Greenwich Village life
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- ‘Here and Now: Letters,’ by Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee
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