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		<title>An X-Rated Mary Shelley Kind of Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 14:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Historical Novel Society reviews The Mysteries of Barcelona The journal of the Historical Novel Society reviewed&#160;The Mysteries of Barcelona&#160;in its November issue. If the name is new to you, HNS is the leading voice for historical fiction in the English-speaking world. Its reviewers sift through mountains of submissions, and an independent novel earns a...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Barcelona Gothic</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Brief Tribute to America’s Halloween and Barcelona’s Castanyada (5 min read) Why We Reach for the Dark This morning, a timely&#160;New York Times&#160;article asked a question: Why is every book Gothic now? Deirdre Coyle’s answer wanders through crumbling manors, family secrets, and a governess trapped in a gloomy mansion in the twenty-second century. The...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Obituary of a Democracy</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[She was 250. The family asks that you hold the flowers one more week. AMERICAN DEMOCRACY, 250, THE WORLD’S MOST IMITATED EXPERIMENT IN SELF-RULE An advance obituary. To be published, or burned, after November 3, 2026. BARCELONA — American democracy, the restless, contradictory, gloriously unfinished experiment that taught half the planet to say&#160;we the people,...]]></description>
		
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		<title>My Grandmother’s Bible Made Me Do This</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 13:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As a boy, I sat with my grandmother’s family Bible on my lap, turning past the genealogies to find Gustave Doré’s engravings—Adam and Eve in Eden, lit like marble against the dark. They were the most beautiful and sensual pictures I had ever seen. So this week I set out to illustrate a scene from...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why Can’t We Just Be Honest?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My friend Ray has known me for over thirty years. We’ve made music together, carried each other through some hard seasons, and can talk about anything. Yesterday he sent me a note about my writing here: “I continue to be amazed at the vulnerability in your writing. I haven’t reached the point where I can...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Will AI Learn to Lust?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Contains sexual content. Marcellus remained silent for thirteen years after his construction, doing nothing beyond his specifications—walking when wound up, sitting when directed, reclining in classical poses that echoed Greco-Roman statuary before stopping and returning to motionless waiting. But Marcellus was different from the beginning. He was special, a masterwork. The clockmaker Baltasar built the...]]></description>
		
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