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Othello, but with dirtbags.
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Mindy Hung on how rich women are portrayed in romance novels.
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Another GIF-drenched romp through what it would be like to know Anne of Green Gables IRL. Except she's Anne of the Island now.
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The return of The Toast's meandering journey through Rebecca Mead's "My Life in Middlemarch."
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Stephanie Boland on "Spiderland," Rose Haig Thomas's strange 1895 children's book, and what it has to say about Victorian childhood.
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Ayn Rand's updated version of "The Rainbow Fish."
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Jane Crowley on her fondness for the often-maligned Criseyde, the Trojan widow of Geoffrey Chaucer's epic poem "Troilus and Criseyde."
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The moral alignment of P.G. Wodehouse's most popular characters.
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Flaws fit for a protagonist.
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Michelle Vider on Eliza Haywood's 1722 novel, "British Recluse: or, The Secret History of Cleomira, Suppos’d Dead."
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Revisiting "Go Ask Alice" and seeing its author's idea of authentic teenage slang makes me realize I should have figured out it was a fake years earlier.
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The many Ronbledore deniers that have darkened our door.
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Encyclopedia Brown, dirtbag boy detective.
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Are you in a Charles Dickens novel right now?
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Manisha Aggarwal-Schifellite on what reading the YA novels of Kit Pearson taught her about being Canadian.