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Jane Psmith & John Psmith | Mr And Mrs Psmith’s Bookshelf | 22nd September 2025 Book reviewers discuss Paul Fussell's 1983 work on the American class system, which divides US society into nine layers: "Top out-of-sight, upper, and upper middle classes all constituting relatively high, then middle class and three degrees of proletarian in the middle, with destitute and bottom out-of-sight at, well, the bottom." Class is a form of culture, determined by taste as much as by net worth (8,000 words) Nomido is the Browser's daily word game. Play today's before it's gone! Georgi Gospodinov, trans. Angela Rodel | LitHub | 2nd October 2025 Novel extract from the Booker-winning Bulgarian writer. A son reflects on his elderly father's later years and wonders if he should have visited more, stopped him working in his garden sooner, even though the plants were his friends. Told with spare prose and economy of expression. The opening line alone is an argument to read this novel: "My father was a gardener. Now he’s a garden" (1,400 words) Want more? The full Browser recommends five outstanding articles, a video and a podcast daily, for less than $1 a week. Caroline Crampton, Editor-In-Chief; Robert Cottrell, Founding Editor; Kaamya Sharma, Editor; Sylvia Bishop, Assistant Publisher; Jodi Ettenberg, Associate Editor; Uri Bram, CEO & Publisher; Al Breach, Founding Director Editorial comments and letters to the editor: editor@thebrowser.com | Technical issues and support requests: support@thebrowser.com | Or write at any time to the publisher: uri@thebrowser.com Proudly published with Ghost, the fiercely independent website and newsletter platform
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