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VCS Department Chair Tom Huhn recently wrote a blurb for the book Kant, Adorno, and the Forms of History by William S. Allen, with was published in earlier this year by Bloomsbury Academic press. Here ...

As a reader, though, an interesting blurb can be as effective as a striking book cover, especially when ... bawdy parody of Samuel Richardson’s pious novel, Pamela. It carried an enthusiastic ...

Make sure to subscribe to our Book Club newsletter, where Ron Charles guides you through the literary news of the week. Samuel Ashworth’s “The Death and Life of August Sweeney” is a novel ...

Searing. Volatile. That’s how Sean Manning felt about the prattle on every second book cover. Even those he’d published, where a novel looked naked without such blurb cliches as uproarious ...

The organisers of the Beckett Biennale, which from next year will celebrate Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, have announced details of their first production... in 2036 and 2038. Game of Thrones ...

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