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Films without writers

Whatever, Scarlett: In A World Without Writers, classic films aren’t quite the same. See also David Kipen’s radical rewrite of U.S. film history.

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Happy weekend from a walk with… the first wife?

Periodically readers write in to ask if my maternal grandfather really married thirteen times. I never met the man; he died the year before I was born. So all I can say is, that’s what my mother tells me. My grandmother corroborated some of the wilder tales, and told a few of her own, but mostly she didn’t like to . . .

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Drabble on Powys

The importance of John Cowper Powys’ work is widely accepted and as widely ignored, writes Margaret Drabble.

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