A Reading Life

From Bloomsbury, with love and contempt

By Katherine A. Powers

February 12, 2006

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I spent the last few days or so reading ''The Letters of Lytton Strachey" (edited by Paul Levy; assisted by Penelope Marcus; Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $40), a book that made me feel just plain crummy. I discussed the matter with a friend of mine, describing the symptoms: the feeling of being a voyeur of the lives of people who ... (Full article: 1113 words)