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Richard Yates at 100
A tribute to one of the great, perennially underrated, American writers of the twentieth century
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The grim economics of publishing
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Master and Commander and the greatness of Peter Weir
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The luck of Barry Lyndon
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That most likeable, and English, of qualities has been almost entirely eroded
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