Notebook April 2019
Jeffrey Hart, 1930–2019
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Remembering the great literary scholar and editor.
Topic: “American Literature”
Features April 2019
An interview with Christian Wiman
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The New Criterion’s poetry editor interviews the poet, editor, and teacher.
Features April 2019
Pound’s China/Pound’s “Cathay”
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A review of Cathay: A Critical Edition, by Ezra Pound, edited by Timothy Billings.
Mar 08, 2019
Week in review
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On fake Hitlers, fictional histories, the Capodimonte reigns again & more.
Mar 06, 2019
A vintage study of drinking and writing
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A review of Alcoholite at the Altar: The Writer and Addiction, The Writings of Roger Forseth, edited by Cassandra Csenscitz.
Mar 04, 2019
The Critic’s Notebook
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On nostalgia in lit crit, a New York book fair, Anne Morgan’s WWI & more from the world of culture.
Feb 22, 2019
Week in review
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On the “perfect novel,” friends of France, the New York Studio School building & more.
Features November 2018
Mr. Bellow’s planet
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On the Canadian writer, occasioned by the publication of the second volume of The Life of Saul Bellow, by Zachary Leader.
Oct 03, 2018
Highlights from the O. Henrys
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On this year’s O. Henry Prize Stories.