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John Banville

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When last we heard from Isabel Archer, she was on her way from London back to Rome, where her husband, the cruel, cosmopolitan aesthete Gilbert Osmond, was waiting. That’s how…

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Crooked Timber
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W. Eugene Smith, Josef Sudek, and humanist photography

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John Florio — lexicographer, raconteur, and supposed model for Shakespeare’s schoolmaster Holofernes, in Love’s Labour’s Lost — was born in London in 1553 to an unidentified Englishwoman and an Italian Protestant who’d…

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The Black-Eyed Blonde: A Conversation with John Banville
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John Banville on Raymond Chandler, literary inhabitation, and the stylish prose of dishwasher instruction manuals

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