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Brothers and Other Perils

Betty Smartt Carter

I am a lazy reader. Left to myself, I would subsist on a diet of My Favorite Fifteen Books from College. Fortunately, I have the best kind of friend...

Barbara Pym’s Affectionate Irony

Betty Smartt Carter

By the time I came of reading age—old enough to pass the portals of the library’s “youth department”—the 1960s were past. I’d missed the cultural upheaval, but our family...