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Panoply of the Weird | Michael Dirda | The New York Review of Books
Little known today, Fitz-James O’Brien deserves serious attention for developing some of science fiction’s most familiar tropes—among them microcosmic worlds,...
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Dantès’s Inferno | Michael Dirda | The New York Review of Books
Mar 19, 2026 - When I first read The Count of Monte Cristo, it offered something irresistible: the possibility of reinvention. If, against all odds, Edmond Dantès could...
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Michael Dirda | The New York Review of Books
Michael Dirda is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a former book critic for The Washington Post, and the author of several collections of essays, including...
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