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Family history used to be recorded. Memoir is where it lives now. Census sheets, baptismal dates, land deeds. Facts meant...

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I’ve been thinking about what makes a great war novel for years without quite phrasing it as a question. It...

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Ray Russell published The Case Against Satan in 1962, nine years before William Peter Blatty wrote The Exorcist. That chronology...

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War memoir is the form I trust most. Not because it’s more accurate than fiction, O’Brien spent an entire book...

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I’ve always found the Gothic drawn to what’s left unsaid. It’s the thing in the locked room, the secret that...

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