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The Gospel writer as editor

“The Synoptic Gospels — Matthew, Mark and Luke — present a conundrum that is probably unique in the annals of literary research.”

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Dallas Cutters Local: My granddad’s union

You might think a man who married thirteen (or so) times wouldn’t have much energy to devote to anything but women, but in the early 1940s my mom’s father (above, left) was founding president of the Dallas Cutters Local Union, part of the Garment Workers’ Union. When my grandmother met her future husband, they both worked for Justin McCarty. She . . .

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Reaching into Pandora’s Handbag

Elizabeth Young “understood long before any broadsheet hack why writers as diverse as Irvine Welsh, Iain Sinclair, Dennis Cooper and Lynne Tillman were significant.”

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Draw me a sheep

One of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s original drawings for The Little Prince has turned up in a Japanese museum.

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