The self-taught son of a boot-and-shoe-machine operator is causing a run on critical superlatives in highbrow London’s literary marketplace. “One of the most remarkable first books I have read,” wrote ...

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The historian and political analyst Garry Wills once described writing for magazines and newspapers as a way to continue his education while getting paid to do it. The thought made a lasting ...