Short Takes

Dictation: A Quartet By Cynthia Ozick Houghton Mifflin, 179 pp., $24 Such delicious mischief. Set in and around the London of Henry James and Joseph Conrad, the title story in this collection stages an early skirmish in the class and gender wars that would roil the upcoming century. (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)

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