Topic: “American Literature”
Features April 1993
Henry James & the life of art
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On the contrasting views of James by different biographers.
Books June 1992
The dynamics of destruction
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A review of Ann Hulbert’s biography of Jean Stafford.
Books March 1992
Our woman in Europe
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A review of These Sad But Glorious Days by Margaret Fuller.
Features September 1991
Literary life in the 1990s
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On writers and readers in an “Age of Sensitivity.”
Features February 1991
Sylvia Plath and the poetry of confession
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On Sylvia Plath’s poetry.
Features November 1990
Selling Henry James
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On teaching James to undergraduates at Northwestern University.
Features February 1988
Tom Wolfe’s vanities
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On The Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe.
Features January 1988
Special effects, special pleading
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On Beloved & earlier novels by Toni Morrison.
Features October 1987
Seven hundred pretty good books
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On the Book-of-the-Month Club at age sixty.