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Making Sense of Sylvia Plath’s Final Act
Plath felt that marriage and children were the necessary but insufficient condition of her continued creativity.
by
Carl Rollyson
via
The Hedgehog Review
on
November 6, 2025
Joseph Kennedy, American Fascist
With Susan Ronald’s meticulous, relentless biography, Joseph P. Kennedy is now firmly established in the annals of twentieth-century fascism.
by
Carl Rollyson
via
The Russell Kirk Center
on
November 7, 2021
Faulkner as Futurist
For Faulkner, all of time existed as a moment, during which all could be changed: past, present, and future.
by
Carl Rollyson
via
The Hedgehog Review
on
September 1, 2020
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The Life of William Faulkner
: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-1934 — Volume 1
Carl Rollyson
2020
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The Life of William Faulkner
: This Alarming Paradox, 1935-1962 — Volume 2
Carl Rollyson
2020
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‘A Land Where the Dead Past Walks’
Faulkner’s chroniclers have to reconcile the novelist’s often repellent political positions with the extraordinary meditations on race, violence, and cruelty in his fiction.
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Brenda Wineapple
via
New York Review of Books
on
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William Faulkner’s Tragic Vision
In Yoknapatawpha County, the past never speaks with a single voice.
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Jonathan Clarke
via
City Journal
on
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What We Don’t Know About Sylvia Plath
On revelations from a chance graveside encounter.
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Emily Van Duyne
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January 22, 2019
