Issue No. 17
On the cover, legendary artist MARK LECKEY is photographed by Mark Peckmezian.
The Book of the Season is MIDDLEMARCH: A STUDY OF PROVINCIAL LIFE by Mary Ann Evans who, for reasons of societal sexism, wrote under the pen name George Eliot. This sprawling English novel tends to be accompanied by phrases like ‘but it’s just so long’ from those who haven’t read it, and ‘the best novel in the English language’ from those who have. Contributors include: Rebecca Mead, Rob Palk, Jean Hannah Edelstein, Deborah Friedell, Jordana Brewster, Yelena Moskovich and Tara Isabella Burton.
PART 1
Library Key
Snippets
The Interview: MARK LECKEY by Hari Kunzru — ‘To be honest, I’m looking for a way out of the art world.’
Supernatural Bookshelf
PART 2
Welcome to Websville
George Eliot reads the news by Rebecca Mead — Railways, cholera, covid, kindness
My twenties, my thirties, my forties… by Rob Palk — The success world is not my world
Some times I set a good example by Jean Hannah Edelstein — My life as a moral model
Middlemarch, 2022
Book club with old friend who happens to be a film star by Deborah Friedell — Three-act reread with the brilliant Jordana Brewster
Speed read
Two wills, burn one by Yelena Moskovich — Very small inheritance story
Education sex by Tara Isabella Burton — Submission fetish but for scholars
Letters
Summer book reveal
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