Saturday Links
American dialects, Louisa May Alcott’s unknown works,abandoned Keats, poetry and the conservative mind, and more.
Good morning! Did Louisa May Alcott publish more than previously thought? “Max Chapnick, a postdoctoral teaching associate at Northeastern University, believes he found about 20 stories and poems written by Louisa May Alcott under her own name as well as pseudonyms for local newspapers in Massachusetts in the late 1850s and early 1860s.”
In case you missed it, John Wilson surveys spy fiction, new and old, in his latest column for this newsletter: “For more than twenty years, I’ve ranted against fashionable claims that spy fiction was out of gas, having lost its raison d’être with the end of the Cold War. On the contrary, I maintained, the genre was enjoying rude health, with a mix of grandmasters, solidly established figures, and interesting new voices, and there were more than enough regional and global conflicts to keep spies and spymasters busy and readers turning the pages. I was right about that. I’m not so sure, though, about what lies ahead.” If you enjoy John’s monthly columns, why not become a paid subscriber if you aren’t already?
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