Notebook April 2019
Jeffrey Hart, 1930–2019
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Remembering the great literary scholar and editor.
Remembering the great literary scholar and editor.
The New Criterion’s poetry editor interviews the poet, editor, and teacher.
A review of Cathay: A Critical Edition, by Ezra Pound, edited by Timothy Billings.
On fake Hitlers, fictional histories, the Capodimonte reigns again & more.
A review of Alcoholite at the Altar: The Writer and Addiction, The Writings of Roger Forseth, edited by Cassandra Csenscitz.
On nostalgia in lit crit, a New York book fair, Anne Morgan’s WWI & more from the world of culture.
On the “perfect novel,” friends of France, the New York Studio School building & more.
On the Canadian writer, occasioned by the publication of the second volume of The Life of Saul Bellow, by Zachary Leader.
On this year’s O. Henry Prize Stories.