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Most of my recent essays include a reference to Jane Austen and to my mum.

And the happy ending is delicious.

What turns the frog into a prince?

Persuasion by Jane Austen

If you say the princesss kiss, you have been misinformed.

He refused to believe it.

I had the happiness of translating the stories inThe Juniper Tree and Other Talesfor Grimm for Sendaks illustrations.

The Castle by Franz Kafka

Beauty, Stendhal said, is the promise of happiness.

Jamess story pits the passion for superb objects against the operations of love and the laws of honor.

Ozicks furious, fearless, merciless invention is reminiscent of Marquez.

Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm

To create a Golem in New York, Puttermesser uses the available earth in her flowerpot.

The reader is present when she is murdered and then raped by a robber.

A gentle, profound, and merciful meditation on what humans owe one another.

The Spoils of Ponyton by Henry James

The little book traces a boys regret for having failed a friend in his trouble.

The best novel, surely, of a writer we love because he makes us question our favorite beliefs.

The sheer moxie of situating the story of the story in the endnotes.

The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick

A landowner who must move his horses across another mans property gets into a minor altercation.

The hassle which would seem to be easy enough to settle escalates beyond the possibility of repair.

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