We have only Joyce Carol Oates to remind us that our sense of Middlemarch’s importance is inflated: “Does George Eliot, wonderful as she is, and certainly comforting in the unwavering sanity of her ...

Everyone has a list of unread books that weighs on her conscience each passing year that it remains unchanged. At the top of mine was “Middlemarch,” by George Eliot, a classic that I managed to put ...

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“Certain men are constitutionally incapable of reading one of the greatest novels ever written,” says the author, whose new novel is “Commitment.” Credit...Rebecca Clarke Supported by On my night ...

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