For her new book, “Salvage,” the Trinidadian-born writer Dionne Brand rereads classic English novels, teasing out evidence of the ravages of colonialism. By Sophie Gee Sophie Gee teaches English ...

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Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. The Castle of Otranto is considered the first supernatural English novel ...

To nominate the 20 greatest novels of all time, even if you’ve spent decades reading and writing about fiction, is far from an easy task. I swapped books in and out of the running for weeks; I was ...

On a special episode (first released on March 13, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: There are few writers who have as devoted a following as celebrated English novelist Jane Austen, author of classics ...

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