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By Sadie Stein August 31,Widow who Fell For Her Son’s Friend’s Stuff She Met On A Matching App (2025) 2011

Bulletin

A cultural news roundup.

Novelist and poet Susan Fromberg Schaeffer has died at seventy-one.

Ruth Rendell speaks out on health cuts.

Snape, the dark-horse winner of a Harry Potterpopularity contest. This is controversial.

What to read when you’re sick.

P. G. Wodehouse: the movie.

Javier Cercas: “I respect music too much—if I write I write, if I listen I listen.”

Tweeting from beyond the grave?

Samples of Obama’s summer reading.

The most-wanted out-of-print title? Madonna’s Sex.

The first Kashmir Book Festival has been canceled amid fears of violence.

She Loves You: the Beatles and pronoun use.

A. S. Byatt: “I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.”

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