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The Literature of Pestilence
During this pandemic, which has been documented nearly to exhaustion, two themes have captured my attention. The first is the difference between old and new plagues; the second is...
Chaucer’s Divine Seriousness
Chaucer: A European Lifemarion turnerprinceton, 624 pages, $39.95 Chaucer has not lacked for biographies, but Marion Turner’s is of a rare ambition and competence. Its method is geographical, even...
