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| | Anne Applebaum -- Serendipity Rules Okay |
 | | That being the case, one might also say that reviews of Companions to English Literature belong to a genre all of their own as well. |
 | | The idea is to read the new guide, edited by distinguished author X, and compare it to previous guides, written by distinguished authors Y and Z, either howling at the new elements of political correctness -- the entries on 'Gay and Lesbian Literature,' say, or 'Hypertext' -- or, alternatively, heaping praise upon them. |
 | | Handed the new edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature, edited by Margaret Drabble, I dutifully flipped to read all of the new entries: not only Gay and Lesbian Literature and Hypertext, but also New Irish Playwrights, Lads' Literature, Kate Atkinson, Carol Shields, Louis de Bernières. |
| www.anneapplebaum.com /other/2000/12_16_spec_drabble.html (775 words) |
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