A new issue of Quarterly Conversation is out. Tayt Harlin reviews Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector by Benjamin Moser (and more and more). A review of Faulkner and Love by Judith L. Sensibar. Ron Rosenbaum on The Nabokov Code: A first encounter with Laura, his last, unfinished work. An interview with William Trevor. Joyce Carol Oates on the witchcraft of Shirley Jackson. An unlikely candidate for influence: Naked Lunch at 50 years young. From The American Scholar, a review of Ulysses and and Us: The Art of Everyday Life in Joyce’s Masterpiece by Declan Kiberd (and more). A review of Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing by Michael Slater (and more). Why are we still reading Dickens? From The Hindu, the canonisation of writers like Rushdie and Naipaul in the West enables it to think of itself as

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