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A Universe of One’s Own
Only in the science fiction genre can one compare an alien to a woman.
by
Nicole Rudick
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New York Review of Books
on
July 8, 2019
Triumph and Disaster: The Tragic Hubris of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If—’
The long and complicated life of Kipling's famous poem.
by
Christopher Benfey
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New York Review of Books
on
July 3, 2019
Rudyard Kipling in America
What happened to the great defender of Empire when he settled in the States?
by
Charles McGrath
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The New Yorker
on
July 1, 2019
“Perhaps We’re Being Dense.” Rejection Letters Sent to Famous Writers
Some kind, some weird, some unbelievably harsh.
by
Emily Temple
via
Literary Hub
on
June 19, 2019
“1984” at Seventy
Why we still read Orwell’s book of prophecy.
by
Louis Menand
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The New Yorker
on
June 8, 2019
Walt Whitman's Boys
To appreciate who Whitman was, we have to reinterpret the poet in ways that have made generations of critical gatekeepers uncomfortable.
by
Jeremy Lybarger
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Boston Review
on
May 30, 2019
Why My Students Don’t Call Themselves ‘Southern’ Writers
On reckoning with a fraught literary history.
by
Katy Simpson Smith
via
Literary Hub
on
March 13, 2019
Reading in an Age of Catastrophe
A review of George Hutchinson's "Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s."
by
Edward Mendelson
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New York Review of Books
on
February 25, 2019
Literary Hoaxes and the Ethics of Authorship
What happens when we find out writers aren't who they said they were.
by
Louis Menand
via
The New Yorker
on
December 10, 2018
How Horror Changed After WWI
The war created a new world, an alternate reality distinct from what most people before 1914 expected their lives to be.
by
W. Scott Poole
via
Literary Hub
on
October 31, 2018
James Baldwin’s Ideas and Activism during the 1980s
Baldwin's often overlooked final years of activism during the 1980's.
by
Aderson François
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Black Perspectives
on
September 20, 2018
Yawns Innumerable
The story of John Quincy Adams’ forgotten epic poem—and its most critical reader.
by
Matthew Sherrill
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Lapham’s Quarterly
on
September 6, 2018
The Old Man and His Muse: Hemingway’s Toe-Curling Infatuation with Adriana Ivancich
For the last decade of his life, the sozzled Hemingway was in thrall to an Italian 30 years his junior.
by
Nicholas Shakespeare
via
The Spectator
on
September 1, 2018
My Fellow Prisoners
The grand lesson of John McCain's life should be that heroic politics is a broken politics.
by
George Blaustein
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n+1
on
August 29, 2018
The Nuclear Fail
Physicist and writer Leo Szilard was vital to the creation of the atomic bomb. He also did everything he could to prevent its use.
by
Emily Harnett
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Hazlitt
on
July 30, 2018
New York City, the Perfect Setting for a Fictional Cold War Strike
On Collier’s 1950 cover story, “Hiroshima, USA: Can Anything Be Done About It?”
by
Sara Blair
via
Literary Hub
on
June 13, 2018
When Walt Whitman’s Poems Were Rejected for Being Too Timely
"1861" is just so 1861.
by
Emily Temple
via
Literary Hub
on
May 31, 2018
Remembering Philip Roth
Philip Roth's work could only have been written by someone who came of age during the peak of postwar liberalism.
by
Laura Tanenbaum
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Jacobin
on
May 26, 2018
Yes, ‘Little House on the Prairie’ is Racially Insensitive — But We Should Still Read It
Librarians are once again raising concerns over the book’s depiction of Native Americans.
by
Caroline Fraser
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Washington Post
on
May 13, 2018
Coming in from the Cold
On spy fiction.
by
Nicholas Dames
via
n+1
on
April 13, 2018
Fine Specimens
How Walt Whitman became the quintessential poet of disability and death.
by
David S. Reynolds
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New York Review of Books
on
March 11, 2018
The Notorious Book that Ties the Right to the Far Right
The enduring popularity of "The Camp of the Saints" sheds light on nativists' historical opposition to immigration.
by
Sarah Jones
via
The New Republic
on
February 2, 2018
The Story Behind the Poem on the Statue of Liberty
Why so many of the people who quote Emma Lazarus’s Petrarchan sonnet miss its true meaning.
by
Walt Hunter
via
The Atlantic
on
January 16, 2018
The Impossibility of Knowing Mark Twain
Even Twain's own autobiography cannot reveal the whole truth of the literary legend.
by
Gary Scharnhorst
via
The Paris Review
on
January 9, 2018
Borne Back Into the Past
Mike St. Thomas reviews ‘Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald.'
by
Mike St. Thomas
via
Commonweal
on
January 4, 2018
Charles Dickens Had Serious Beef with America and Its Bad Manners
How Charles Dickens' unpleasant trip to Boston led to "A Christmas Carol."
by
Samantha Silva
via
Literary Hub
on
December 21, 2017
Little House, Small Government
How Laura Ingalls Wilder’s frontier vision of freedom and survival lives on in Trump’s America.
by
Vivian Gornick
via
The New Republic
on
November 16, 2017
Zora Neale Hurston: “A Genius of the South”
John W. W. Zeiser reviews Peter Bagge's graphic biography "Fire!! The Zora Neale Hurston Story."
by
John W. W. Zeiser
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
November 13, 2017
How to Love Problematic Pop Culture
Revisiting the contradictions in "Hamilton" – and in the pushback to criticisms of the beloved musical.
by
Lyra Monteiro
via
Medium
on
August 27, 2017
The True American
A review on the many publications about Henry David Thoreau's life for the bicentennial anniversary of his birthday.
by
Robert Pogue Harrison
via
New York Review of Books
on
August 17, 2017
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