The Octavian 2021 Book List
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Our picks for the books you need to read in 2022, featuring Fareed Zakaria, Dara Horn, BHL, Mario Vargas Llosa, and many others.
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Our picks for the books you need to read in 2022, featuring Fareed Zakaria, Dara Horn, BHL, Mario Vargas Llosa, and many others.
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Elliot Ackerman -- decorated solider, best-selling novelist and National Book Award Nominee -- talks about our exit from Afghanistan.
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The best books we read in 2020, from Shakespeare in America to Hiroshima's secrets and beyond.
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We spoke with Craig Wright, author of The Hidden Habits of Genius. We spoke with Craig about his views on talent, art, and isolation.
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A translator on why Camus and his novel of plague speak to us in this dark moment.
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Charles Schulz's Peanuts can still delight, sadden, and fascinate us seven decades after it premiered in newspapers. We spoke with the editor of a Peanuts writing anthology about why.
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We spoke with Eileen Hunt Botting about Mary Shelley and The Last Man, the first post-apocalyptic novel, set in a world devastated by plague.
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We spoke with eminent Germanist and intellectual historian David Wellbery on Nobel laureate Thomas Mann and the literature of disease.
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Proust scholar Caroline Weber told us why In Search of Lost Time makes for essential reading.
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We spoke with Laura Marris, the translator of a new version of Albert Camus’ seminal novel The Plague, about translating this classic during a pandemic.
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