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Literary persuasion is the art of making a reader feel, consider and remember. It does not depend on winning an argument through force. A persuasive book…
A story often begins with a destination in mind. A novelist may imagine the final image, the last conversation, or the moral shape of a character’s life before…
A family reunion can look quiet from the outside: folding chairs on a lawn, bowls of salad on a trestle table, children drifting between adults, and someone…
A review is a small piece of writing asked to perform several demanding tasks at once. It must describe a book accurately, respond to it honestly, and give…
A library can be a first classroom, a refuge, a map room and a place where a person discovers that private thoughts have public companions. Before a writer…
History is often presented as a sequence of official decisions, famous speeches and public victories. That arrangement can make ordinary people appear passive,…
A novel often begins with a concern that will not go away. A writer sees an injustice, remembers a buried history, or becomes troubled by the way one group is…
A short book is not necessarily a small book. Its physical size may be modest, yet its emotional, intellectual, or imaginative reach can be immense. Some…
Some memories arrive with a date, while others come disguised as weather. A summer on the Cliffs of Moher returns in fragments: a blue Atlantic horizon, a gust…
The last chapter of a travelogue is rarely the longest, yet it carries the heaviest cargo. For An Irish Experience, the final pages became a quiet reckoning…