Topic: “American Literature”
Books March 2017
Jackson’s macabre
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Nov 18, 2016
Week in review
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Democrats’ dreams dashed, and discerning the divine in dreary life.
Nov 11, 2016
Week in review
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Preserving Conquest's poetry, and a frank prayer for the presidency.
Notes & Comments November 2016
Homer. Sappho. Dylan?
On the Nobel Prize committee’s questionable taste.
Reconsiderations October 2016
The letters of Lowell & Bishop
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On two new publications of the famous correspondence.
Books June 2005
Kinderkampf
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A review of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer.
Features November 2004
The lessons of “Lonelyhearts”
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On the lessons of suffering we can learn from Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts.
Books February 2004
The mystery of Marianne Moore
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Books March 1998
Little Kazin & big God
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A review of God & the American Writer by Alfred Kazin.