bobbygw
@bobbygw.bsky.social
Love books, feminism, human rights, culture. Occasional book reviewer (bobbygw.com). Like Winnie the Pooh, I'm a 'Bear of very Little Brain, & long Words bother me.' Ahem. A curator of feminism, writers & books at https://www.scoop.it/u/bobbygw
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#booksky recommended for #literaryfiction #biographies 📚💙
19 books to look forward to in 2026, inc novels by George Saunders, Tayari Jones, Álvaro Enrigue (Natasha Wimmer, translator), Ann Patchett; and American Struggle: An Anthology by Pulitzer-winning historian Jon Meacham.
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19 books to look forward to in 2026, inc novels by George Saunders, Tayari Jones, Álvaro Enrigue (Natasha Wimmer, translator), Ann Patchett; and American Struggle: An Anthology by Pulitzer-winning historian Jon Meacham.
wapo.st/4jnbfQl
#booksky for #health #HeartHealth 🫀⚕️📚💙
Eric Topol*, cardiologist & author: ‘I'm a cardiologist.
Here are 10 science-based ways to prevent heart disease.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. But about 80 percent of cases are considered preventable.’
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Eric Topol*, cardiologist & author: ‘I'm a cardiologist.
Here are 10 science-based ways to prevent heart disease.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. But about 80 percent of cases are considered preventable.’
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Guest column | I’m a cardiologist. Here are 10 science-based ways to prevent heart disease.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. But about 80 percent of cases are considered preventable.
wapo.st
January 5, 2026 at 5:06 AM
#booksky for #health #HeartHealth 🫀⚕️📚💙
Eric Topol*, cardiologist & author: ‘I'm a cardiologist.
Here are 10 science-based ways to prevent heart disease.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. But about 80 percent of cases are considered preventable.’
wapo.st/4suCEnK
Eric Topol*, cardiologist & author: ‘I'm a cardiologist.
Here are 10 science-based ways to prevent heart disease.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. But about 80 percent of cases are considered preventable.’
wapo.st/4suCEnK
#booksky for #memoirs #womenwriters #booklovers
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Margaret Atwood settles old scores. The novelist explains she holds grudges – but the many past grievances she recalls in detail make for dispiriting reading. Review by Frances Wilson, award-winning biographer.
spectator.com/article/marg...
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Margaret Atwood settles old scores. The novelist explains she holds grudges – but the many past grievances she recalls in detail make for dispiriting reading. Review by Frances Wilson, award-winning biographer.
spectator.com/article/marg...
January 4, 2026 at 2:02 PM
#booksky for #memoirs #womenwriters #booklovers
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Margaret Atwood settles old scores. The novelist explains she holds grudges – but the many past grievances she recalls in detail make for dispiriting reading. Review by Frances Wilson, award-winning biographer.
spectator.com/article/marg...
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Margaret Atwood settles old scores. The novelist explains she holds grudges – but the many past grievances she recalls in detail make for dispiriting reading. Review by Frances Wilson, award-winning biographer.
spectator.com/article/marg...
#booksky recommended for #literaryfiction #biographies 📚💙
19 books to look forward to in 2026, inc novels by George Saunders, Tayari Jones, Álvaro Enrigue (Natasha Wimmer, translator), Ann Patchett; and American Struggle: An Anthology by Pulitzer-winning historian Jon Meacham.
wapo.st/4jnbfQl
19 books to look forward to in 2026, inc novels by George Saunders, Tayari Jones, Álvaro Enrigue (Natasha Wimmer, translator), Ann Patchett; and American Struggle: An Anthology by Pulitzer-winning historian Jon Meacham.
wapo.st/4jnbfQl
January 4, 2026 at 9:05 AM
#booksky recommended for #literaryfiction #biographies 📚💙
19 books to look forward to in 2026, inc novels by George Saunders, Tayari Jones, Álvaro Enrigue (Natasha Wimmer, translator), Ann Patchett; and American Struggle: An Anthology by Pulitzer-winning historian Jon Meacham.
wapo.st/4jnbfQl
19 books to look forward to in 2026, inc novels by George Saunders, Tayari Jones, Álvaro Enrigue (Natasha Wimmer, translator), Ann Patchett; and American Struggle: An Anthology by Pulitzer-winning historian Jon Meacham.
wapo.st/4jnbfQl
#booksky for #booksellers #booklovers 📚💙
PBS News Hour (YouTube):
How Barnes and Noble made a comeback by revitalizing its philosophy.
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PBS News Hour (YouTube):
How Barnes and Noble made a comeback by revitalizing its philosophy.
youtu.be/Z9kOIcNUMnQ?...
How Barnes and Noble made a comeback by revitalizing its philosophy
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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January 2, 2026 at 5:45 PM
#booksky for #booksellers #booklovers 📚💙
PBS News Hour (YouTube):
How Barnes and Noble made a comeback by revitalizing its philosophy.
youtu.be/Z9kOIcNUMnQ?...
PBS News Hour (YouTube):
How Barnes and Noble made a comeback by revitalizing its philosophy.
youtu.be/Z9kOIcNUMnQ?...
#booksky recommended for #memoirs #feminism #history #biographies #film #booklovers 📚💙
A look back at some great books from 2025.
A history of the 1929 Wall Street crash, a biog of Joan Crawford, the making of Mary Poppins, the civil rights activist/leader Audley Moore, & more.
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A look back at some great books from 2025.
A history of the 1929 Wall Street crash, a biog of Joan Crawford, the making of Mary Poppins, the civil rights activist/leader Audley Moore, & more.
wapo.st/44UDArn
January 2, 2026 at 5:05 PM
#booksky recommended for #memoirs #feminism #history #biographies #film #booklovers 📚💙
A look back at some great books from 2025.
A history of the 1929 Wall Street crash, a biog of Joan Crawford, the making of Mary Poppins, the civil rights activist/leader Audley Moore, & more.
wapo.st/44UDArn
A look back at some great books from 2025.
A history of the 1929 Wall Street crash, a biog of Joan Crawford, the making of Mary Poppins, the civil rights activist/leader Audley Moore, & more.
wapo.st/44UDArn
#booksky for #literaryfiction #womenwriters #nonfiction #booklovers 📚💙
A Preview of 2026 books coming out from Virago, the feminist publisher.
www.virago.co.uk/virago-news/...
A Preview of 2026 books coming out from Virago, the feminist publisher.
www.virago.co.uk/virago-news/...
January 1, 2026 at 11:44 AM
#booksky for #literaryfiction #womenwriters #nonfiction #booklovers 📚💙
A Preview of 2026 books coming out from Virago, the feminist publisher.
www.virago.co.uk/virago-news/...
A Preview of 2026 books coming out from Virago, the feminist publisher.
www.virago.co.uk/virago-news/...
#Obituaries: Over the past 12 months, the world said goodbye to a groundbreaking naturalist and a prizefighter, a movie director, actors and environmentalists, singers, whistleblowers, reporters and activists.
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A few life lessons from Robert Redford, Jane Goodall and others who died in 2025
Keep your cool. Less is more. Don’t forget the duct tape. And more wisdom from lives well lived.
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December 29, 2025 at 5:43 AM
#Obituaries: Over the past 12 months, the world said goodbye to a groundbreaking naturalist and a prizefighter, a movie director, actors and environmentalists, singers, whistleblowers, reporters and activists.
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wapo.st/3LgfGjc
Highly recommended for #HelpingOthers #GivingGrace
Not sure where donations end up? These groups tell you exactly who you’re helping and how you’re changing lives.
www.cnn.com/us/donations...
Not sure where donations end up? These groups tell you exactly who you’re helping and how you’re changing lives.
www.cnn.com/us/donations...
Not sure where donations end up? These groups tell you exactly who you’re helping and how you’re changing lives | CNN
Ogechi Irondi’s future teetered between two scenarios: one that would lead to dual degrees after nine years of college, and one that would leave the single mother and her young children homeless. Stra...
www.cnn.com
December 28, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Highly recommended for #HelpingOthers #GivingGrace
Not sure where donations end up? These groups tell you exactly who you’re helping and how you’re changing lives.
www.cnn.com/us/donations...
Not sure where donations end up? These groups tell you exactly who you’re helping and how you’re changing lives.
www.cnn.com/us/donations...
#booksky fun for #JaneAusten #Janeites #literaryfiction #womenwriters #booklovers
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Can You Ace this Jane Austen 250th Birthday Trivia Quiz?
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Can You Ace this Jane Austen 250th Birthday Trivia Quiz?
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Can You Ace This Jane Austen 250th Birthday Trivia Quiz? (Gift Article)
This 12-question challenge will test your knowledge of all things Austen.
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:38 AM
#booksky fun for #JaneAusten #Janeites #literaryfiction #womenwriters #booklovers
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Can You Ace this Jane Austen 250th Birthday Trivia Quiz?
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Can You Ace this Jane Austen 250th Birthday Trivia Quiz?
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
“...we have no choice but to hold a mirror to ourselves, the abysses in which we cultivate our loneliness, and which, we too, try to survive.”
@murmurshewrote.bsky.social reviews @appletwigli.bsky.social's Things in Nature Merely Grow (@fsgbooks.bsky.social).
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@murmurshewrote.bsky.social reviews @appletwigli.bsky.social's Things in Nature Merely Grow (@fsgbooks.bsky.social).
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December 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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UK publication day for the paperback edition of The Forever War. Two new chapters on Trump 2.0 and the 2024 election. The Trump presidency has been 250 years in the making. If you look at US history in a different light, as I try to do so in the book his shocking presidency isn’t such a shock.
November 6, 2025 at 10:10 AM
UK publication day for the paperback edition of The Forever War. Two new chapters on Trump 2.0 and the 2024 election. The Trump presidency has been 250 years in the making. If you look at US history in a different light, as I try to do so in the book his shocking presidency isn’t such a shock.
#censorship
Bari Weiss, Paramount's/Ellison's corporate shill, has spiked 60 Minutes story* of the accounts of Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador's notorious max-security prison. (*Cleared by CBS attorneys & CBS Standards & Practices.)
www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/m...
Bari Weiss, Paramount's/Ellison's corporate shill, has spiked 60 Minutes story* of the accounts of Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador's notorious max-security prison. (*Cleared by CBS attorneys & CBS Standards & Practices.)
www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/m...
CBS shelves ‘60 Minutes’ story on Trump deportees at the last minute: ‘People are threatening to quit,’ staffers say | CNN Business
“60 Minutes” just suffered a severe blow to its credibility. Now one of its own correspondents fears the program is being “dismantled,” and some employees are threatening to quit.
www.cnn.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
#censorship
Bari Weiss, Paramount's/Ellison's corporate shill, has spiked 60 Minutes story* of the accounts of Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador's notorious max-security prison. (*Cleared by CBS attorneys & CBS Standards & Practices.)
www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/m...
Bari Weiss, Paramount's/Ellison's corporate shill, has spiked 60 Minutes story* of the accounts of Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador's notorious max-security prison. (*Cleared by CBS attorneys & CBS Standards & Practices.)
www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/m...
#booksky recommended for #nonfiction #womenwriters #booklovers 📚💙
Obituary: Sue Bender, Who Wrote About Living with the Amish, Dies at 91.
Plain and Simple, her bestselling 1989 book, was a go-to text of the anti-materialist movement known as voluntary simplicity.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/b...
Obituary: Sue Bender, Who Wrote About Living with the Amish, Dies at 91.
Plain and Simple, her bestselling 1989 book, was a go-to text of the anti-materialist movement known as voluntary simplicity.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/b...
Sue Bender, Who Wrote About Living With the Amish, Dies at 91
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
#booksky recommended for #nonfiction #womenwriters #booklovers 📚💙
Obituary: Sue Bender, Who Wrote About Living with the Amish, Dies at 91.
Plain and Simple, her bestselling 1989 book, was a go-to text of the anti-materialist movement known as voluntary simplicity.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/b...
Obituary: Sue Bender, Who Wrote About Living with the Amish, Dies at 91.
Plain and Simple, her bestselling 1989 book, was a go-to text of the anti-materialist movement known as voluntary simplicity.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/b...
#booksky for #nonfiction #manifestos #essays #history #politics 📚💙
The Pamphlet That Has Roused Americans to Action for 250 Years.
Thomas Paine published Common Sense in 1776 as an argument for independence. Americans across the political spectrum have been citing it ever since.
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The Pamphlet That Has Roused Americans to Action for 250 Years.
Thomas Paine published Common Sense in 1776 as an argument for independence. Americans across the political spectrum have been citing it ever since.
bit.ly/4p1Hxl6
December 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
#booksky for #nonfiction #manifestos #essays #history #politics 📚💙
The Pamphlet That Has Roused Americans to Action for 250 Years.
Thomas Paine published Common Sense in 1776 as an argument for independence. Americans across the political spectrum have been citing it ever since.
bit.ly/4p1Hxl6
The Pamphlet That Has Roused Americans to Action for 250 Years.
Thomas Paine published Common Sense in 1776 as an argument for independence. Americans across the political spectrum have been citing it ever since.
bit.ly/4p1Hxl6
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chapter 1 of a banned book.
marked with something that pisses them off.
we'll send it free, shipping included.
get your free bookmark here:
bannedcamppodcast.com/fdt
why are we doing this? someone's gotta do something. we've got a printer and too much free time.
marked with something that pisses them off.
we'll send it free, shipping included.
get your free bookmark here:
bannedcamppodcast.com/fdt
why are we doing this? someone's gotta do something. we've got a printer and too much free time.
December 17, 2025 at 3:45 AM
chapter 1 of a banned book.
marked with something that pisses them off.
we'll send it free, shipping included.
get your free bookmark here:
bannedcamppodcast.com/fdt
why are we doing this? someone's gotta do something. we've got a printer and too much free time.
marked with something that pisses them off.
we'll send it free, shipping included.
get your free bookmark here:
bannedcamppodcast.com/fdt
why are we doing this? someone's gotta do something. we've got a printer and too much free time.
#booksky highly recommended for #ArtBooks #art #booklovers 📚💙
@hyperallergic.com's Favorite Art Books of 2025
— among them, Marsha P. Johnson, Mary Cassatt in Paris, Ruth Asawa and mothering.
hyperallergic.com/our-favorite...
@hyperallergic.com's Favorite Art Books of 2025
— among them, Marsha P. Johnson, Mary Cassatt in Paris, Ruth Asawa and mothering.
hyperallergic.com/our-favorite...
December 16, 2025 at 6:56 AM
#booksky highly recommended for #ArtBooks #art #booklovers 📚💙
@hyperallergic.com's Favorite Art Books of 2025
— among them, Marsha P. Johnson, Mary Cassatt in Paris, Ruth Asawa and mothering.
hyperallergic.com/our-favorite...
@hyperallergic.com's Favorite Art Books of 2025
— among them, Marsha P. Johnson, Mary Cassatt in Paris, Ruth Asawa and mothering.
hyperallergic.com/our-favorite...
#booksky highly recommended for #HorrorFiction #ReadingGuides #womenwriters #booklovers 📚💙
Horror Fiction by Women: Feral, Fearless, and Long Overdue — Alma Katsu and Sadie Hartmann discuss women who write horror fiction.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/fera...
Horror Fiction by Women: Feral, Fearless, and Long Overdue — Alma Katsu and Sadie Hartmann discuss women who write horror fiction.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/fera...
December 15, 2025 at 10:37 AM
#booksky highly recommended for #HorrorFiction #ReadingGuides #womenwriters #booklovers 📚💙
Horror Fiction by Women: Feral, Fearless, and Long Overdue — Alma Katsu and Sadie Hartmann discuss women who write horror fiction.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/fera...
Horror Fiction by Women: Feral, Fearless, and Long Overdue — Alma Katsu and Sadie Hartmann discuss women who write horror fiction.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/fera...
#booksky for #ComicFiction #FunnyFiction #literaryfiction #booklovers
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The Funniest Novels of 2025? The eight books (inc. the winner) shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction.
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The Funniest Novels of 2025? The eight books (inc. the winner) shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction.
fivebooks.com/best-books/t...
December 15, 2025 at 10:06 AM
#booksky for #ComicFiction #FunnyFiction #literaryfiction #booklovers
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The Funniest Novels of 2025? The eight books (inc. the winner) shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction.
fivebooks.com/best-books/t...
🖋️📚💙
The Funniest Novels of 2025? The eight books (inc. the winner) shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction.
fivebooks.com/best-books/t...
#booksky highly recommended for #IllustratedBooks #EdwardGorey #CoffeeTableBooks #booklovers 📚💙
A centennial look back at Edward Gorey's macabre art and guarded life.
In E Is for Edward, a beautifully illustrated coffee table book, Gregory Hischak celebrates the artist's works.
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A centennial look back at Edward Gorey's macabre art and guarded life.
In E Is for Edward, a beautifully illustrated coffee table book, Gregory Hischak celebrates the artist's works.
wapo.st/4pzg7Ea
December 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
#booksky highly recommended for #IllustratedBooks #EdwardGorey #CoffeeTableBooks #booklovers 📚💙
A centennial look back at Edward Gorey's macabre art and guarded life.
In E Is for Edward, a beautifully illustrated coffee table book, Gregory Hischak celebrates the artist's works.
wapo.st/4pzg7Ea
A centennial look back at Edward Gorey's macabre art and guarded life.
In E Is for Edward, a beautifully illustrated coffee table book, Gregory Hischak celebrates the artist's works.
wapo.st/4pzg7Ea
#booksky for #literaryfiction #booklovers 🖋️📚💙
The Washington Post's guide to the biggest novels of the season: they weighed the competition, literally and literarily.
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The Washington Post's guide to the biggest novels of the season: they weighed the competition, literally and literarily.
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December 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
#booksky for #literaryfiction #booklovers 🖋️📚💙
The Washington Post's guide to the biggest novels of the season: they weighed the competition, literally and literarily.
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The Washington Post's guide to the biggest novels of the season: they weighed the competition, literally and literarily.
wapo.st/3L1gbh3
#booksky highly recommended for #womenwriters #literaryfiction #booklovers 📚💙
Obituary: Joanna Trollope, bestselling chronicler of ordinary life, dies aged 82.
Her novels drew on what bestselling novelist Fay Weldon called a ‘gift for putting her finger on the problem of the times.’
bit.ly/4rVq4xj
Obituary: Joanna Trollope, bestselling chronicler of ordinary life, dies aged 82.
Her novels drew on what bestselling novelist Fay Weldon called a ‘gift for putting her finger on the problem of the times.’
bit.ly/4rVq4xj
Joanna Trollope, bestselling chronicler of ordinary life, dies aged 82
Her novels, including A Village Affair and Other People’s Children, drew on what Fay Weldon called a ‘gift for putting her finger on the problem of the times’
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
#booksky highly recommended for #womenwriters #literaryfiction #booklovers 📚💙
Obituary: Joanna Trollope, bestselling chronicler of ordinary life, dies aged 82.
Her novels drew on what bestselling novelist Fay Weldon called a ‘gift for putting her finger on the problem of the times.’
bit.ly/4rVq4xj
Obituary: Joanna Trollope, bestselling chronicler of ordinary life, dies aged 82.
Her novels drew on what bestselling novelist Fay Weldon called a ‘gift for putting her finger on the problem of the times.’
bit.ly/4rVq4xj
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Here are this year's best spy novels! Congrats, @danfesperman.bsky.social Joe Finder, Paul Vidich, Jinwoo Park, M.J. Robotham, and Mick Herron! crimereads.com/best-books-2...
The Best Books of 2025: Espionage Fiction
In another year packed with top quality espionage fiction, readers will find a special fascination with Oxford, great literature, and life in exile. Here are our choices for the year’s best s…
crimereads.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Here are this year's best spy novels! Congrats, @danfesperman.bsky.social Joe Finder, Paul Vidich, Jinwoo Park, M.J. Robotham, and Mick Herron! crimereads.com/best-books-2...
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For about the price of a really good toaster oven, you might be able to take home your very own Pablo Picasso painting.
This $1M Picasso Could Be Yours for Just $117
"Tête de Femme,” a gouache on paper, is being raffled to support Alzheimer’s research.
hyperallergic.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
For about the price of a really good toaster oven, you might be able to take home your very own Pablo Picasso painting.
#booksky recommended for #LiteraryCriticism #AuthorStudies #anthologies 📚💙
Obituary: John Carey, one of the truly great English literature studies scholars, authors, essayists & anthologists, has died aged 91. He wrote first to enlighten & second to entertain.
www.thetimes.com/article/f9eb...
Obituary: John Carey, one of the truly great English literature studies scholars, authors, essayists & anthologists, has died aged 91. He wrote first to enlighten & second to entertain.
www.thetimes.com/article/f9eb...
December 12, 2025 at 10:03 PM
#booksky recommended for #LiteraryCriticism #AuthorStudies #anthologies 📚💙
Obituary: John Carey, one of the truly great English literature studies scholars, authors, essayists & anthologists, has died aged 91. He wrote first to enlighten & second to entertain.
www.thetimes.com/article/f9eb...
Obituary: John Carey, one of the truly great English literature studies scholars, authors, essayists & anthologists, has died aged 91. He wrote first to enlighten & second to entertain.
www.thetimes.com/article/f9eb...