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Since its immediate success in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular nov Puffin Plated: A Book-to-Table Reading Experience A deluxe, full-color hardback edition of the perennial Jane Austen

I’m a fan of anthologies and story collections, especially when those collections feature a variety of authors, but I also enjoy story collections that contain only the works of a

Theory of the Novel Instructors: Armstrong and Garréta Intended for graduate students and advanced undergraduates who want to pursue some area of novel, fiction, or narrative studies, this course examines a set of concepts that should provide them access to 1) the modes of thinking that characterize novels across the modern and contemporary periods and several different national traditions, 2) the various ways that critical theory has defined those concepts, and 3) reading the novel as a con...

Math Corner brainteaser. In the Math Corner at the end of my March Diary I stated a theorem about divisibility and challenged readers to prove it. My proof is here.  Dickens, Twain, and that tobacco.  Also in the March Diary I wondered if the reference to "Negro-head" tobacco in my 2003 Barnes & Noble Classics edition of Great Expectations, Chapter 40, was a bowdlerization of something slightly different in the 1861 original of that novel.  Several readers stepped up to that one. Sorry, Joh...

a- Meeting the challenge.     Eye-roll of the month was surely the Biden Administration telling us that the invasion of our country from the south is not a crisis, merely a challenge. When the managerial class tell us that something or other is a  challenge, you can be sure its a disaster caused by their own crackpot policies. I covered this in Chapter 2 of my spacetime-bending 2009 bestseller  That was when I had just gotten through tossing and goring political scientist Robert Putnams ...

Las Vegas Weekly Explore new combinations at Full House. Photo: Steve Marcus Genevie Durano Thu, Jan 14, 2021 (2 a.m.) The corner of Maryland Parkway and Silverado Ranch has seen a spate of restaurant openings in the past year, including Nutmeg Indian American Cuisine, Doh Korean BBQ and hand-pulled noodle palace Shang Mian. One spot that’s been there for seven years is worth revisiting, the Filipino restaurant Full House BBQ. Owner and executive chef Alexander Irlandes, who previously serv...