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Leonard S. Marcus on Madeleine L’Engle, the “fearless experimenter” of children’s literature
The editor of LOA’s new two-volume L’Engle edition discusses the writer who aimed to create work of high literary merit for young people.

Congrats to @legroff on being named a 2018 #NBAwards finalist! We note with interest that she's been reading a lot of the currently out-of-print Nancy Hale. . .
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Lisa Yaszek: We get the history of women in science fiction “thoroughly wrong”
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“Monsters lurk everywhere”: Sarah Weinman uncovers the real-life crime behind Nabokov’s Lolita
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom recasts the life of one of our major literary figures
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Kate Wilhelm, “Baby, You Were Great”

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My Dearest Julia: The Wartime Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Wife
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The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin
Henry James: A London Life (LOA eBook Classic)

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