Notebook October 2013
John Hollander, 1929–2013
Remembering the poet John Hollander.
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Notebook September 2013
Edmund Sears Morgan, 1916–2013
Remembering the great historian, Edmund Sears Morgan.
Notebook June 2013
On remembering poems
The lost art of memorizing poetry.
Notebook April 2013
Deciphering a cigarette with Joseph Frank
A look at the legacy of literary scholar and Dostoevsky biographer Joseph Frank (1918–2013).
Notebook March 2013
On solitude: rereading May Sarton’s journals
Notebook February 2013
The conservative queen
On the conservative ways of the Queen Mother.
Notebook November 2012
The Widmer uncertainty principle
On Urs Widmer and a trio of his novels.
Notebook November 2012
Eugene D. Genovese, 1930–2012
On the life of Eugene Dominick Genovese, antebellum historian who passed away in September.
Notebook October 2012
The book of Enoch
A look back at the controversial and influential Enoch Powell.
Notebook September 2012
Gore Vidal, 1925–2012
On the passing of the writer.