VGN Editorial
VGN’s collective editorial byline for books, culture and screen storytelling.
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Jane Austen makes a love story out of a more difficult achievement: learning to distrust your own certainty.
Conan Doyle lets a supernatural story occupy the mind before Holmes can dismantle it.
Mary Shelley's novel becomes most unsettling when invention gives way to abandonment.
Charlotte Brontë gives her heroine a form of power that does not depend on wealth: the right to tell the story.
Darwin's book remains instructive as a study in arranging evidence and confronting objections.
The March sisters' different hopes keep Alcott's domestic world from becoming a single lesson about growing up.