Notebook June 2023
Roman Romanticism
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On Francis Marion Crawford’s Saracinesca tetralogy.
Topic: “American Literature”
Features April 2022
Berryman at letters
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On the correspondence of the twentieth-century American poet.
Features April 2022
Louise Glück’s music
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On the poetry of the 2020 Nobel Prize–winner.
Features March 2022
Idol temptations on the Adriatic
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On two great twentieth-century poets.
Reconsiderations February 2022
Hoosier prodigy
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On Raintree County by Ross Lockridge, Jr.
Reflections February 2022
Henry James & the Great War
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On the author’s final years in England.
Books December 2021
The demands of literature
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Features November 2021
Chasing the Man-Moth
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On Elizabeth Bishop’s subway creature.
Features October 2021
Two stray notes on “Moby-Dick”
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On contemporary reviews of Moby-Dick and Melville’s journey on the Acushnet.
Sep 10, 2021
Week in review
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On Hemingway, Mr. Kurtz & the Frick.