Roy Peter Clark has made a whole career out of his guides to better writing. But does his fiction manual actually work? “No one is born,” writes poetry critic Helen Vendler, “understanding string ...

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One of the seminarians whom I teach came to me recently and said, half-joking, “I think I will scream if you write one more book list for the Register!” Yes, I realize that I have done a healthy ...

With his pipe, deerstalker hat and formidable "methods," Sherlock Holmes may be the most recognizable face of the Victorian mystery story. But how does he stack up against Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste ...

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