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3 days ago

Jeeves Again review new Jeeves and Wooster stories by celebrity fans

PG Wodehouse's comic brilliance endures globally because Jeeves' psychological insight, Bertie Wooster's decency, and absurd situations played completely straight continue to charm readers.
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Where to start with: Paul Bailey

Paul Bailey combined comic brilliance, deep empathy, lively dialogue, and a persistent focus on memory and ageing across novels, memoirs, and poetry.
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1 month ago

What's With Baum? by Woody Allen review the film-maker's late-life first novel

An elderly bespectacled novelist's witty, familiar comic voice yields a fluent, nostalgic New York story that ultimately collapses into unresolved farce without confronting scandal.
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