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February 1994

Ovid transformed

by Sara Mack

A review of The Metamorphoses of Ovid: A New Verse Translation by Allen Mandelbaum.

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February 1991

Sylvia Plath and the poetry of confession

by Bruce Bawer

On Sylvia Plath’s poetry.

November 1990

Selling Henry James

by Joseph Epstein

On teaching James to undergraduates at Northwestern University.

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