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The Vault contains more than 400 essays by Ted Gioia on various topics (mostly literary). It is available only to paid subscribers to The Honest Broker
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Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie
Imagine a disjunctive moment of historic importance—at a stroke of a clock, present and future are irreparably torn from the anchor of the past. In the…
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1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Essay by Ted Gioia In the opening pages of 1Q84, Aomame is rushing to make an appointment. Her taxi is stuck in a traffic jam on a Tokyo expressway. The…
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2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Essay by Ted Gioia Here is a reasonable rule of thumb for sci-fi readers: if the movie came first, then you can skip the book. But if the book came…
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2666 by Roberto Bolaño
Essay by Ted Gioia Early in 2007, the Colombian magazine Semana asked a panel of experts to select the 100 best novels in Spanish published during the…
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4-3-2-1 by Paul Auster
I grieved when the hero of Paul Auster's novel died on page 180—but especially so because this novel is almost 900 pages long. How would I manage…
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A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
When literary critic Wyatt Mason recently ridiculed A Canticle for Leibowitz in the “Sentences” blog he runs for Harper’s, he was amazed at the heated…
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Charles Dickens and the Christmas Ghost Story
What do you want for Christmas? How about something scary? That might seem peculiar to holiday revelers today, but in Victorian England, the Christmas…
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