Resident Theologian
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The ten-plus authors club
Reading everything an author has written, or at least ten of his or her books. What’s your ten-plus list? Who do you hope to add to it?
My latest: on Houellebecq (in Mere O) and Forgiveness (in Comment)
Links to two new essays just published online.
James and le Carré (TLC, 3)
P. D. James and John le Carré are two of my favorite novelists. I’ve written about each of them before. A question occurred to me as I was reading le Carré’s Our Game this week, and that question reminded me of a question I asked on Twitter a couple years ago.
The queen
Of all the brilliant British women writers who lived to a good old age in the long twentieth century, who is your favorite? The candidates are many; both Mary Midgley and Agatha Christie come immediately to mind. Doubtless Rebecca West is chief among all women and men of English letters during this period. But as for me and my house, we hail P. D. James, or as I affectionately call her, The Queen. Long may she reign, even in death.