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Christopher Benfey

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Siding with Ahab

Can we appreciate Herman Melville’s work without attributing to it schemes for the uplift of modern man?

by Christopher Benfey via New York Review of Books on July 25, 2024
Emerson & His ‘Big Brethren’

A new book explores the final days of Ralph Waldo Emerson - traveling from Concord to California, and beyond.

by Christopher Benfey via New York Review of Books on September 29, 2022
Pranksters and Puritans

Why Thomas Morton seems to have taken particular delight in driving the Pilgrims and Puritans out of their minds.

by Christopher Benfey via New York Review of Books on February 15, 2021
Triumph and Disaster: The Tragic Hubris of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If—’

The long and complicated life of Kipling's famous poem.

by Christopher Benfey via New York Review of Books on July 3, 2019
The Short, Sad Story of Stanwix Melville

Piecing back together the forgotten history of Herman Melville's second son.

by Christopher Benfey via New York Review of Books on October 30, 2017

If: The Untold Story of Kipling's American Yers

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Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling, American Imperialist

What the author of "If—" learned about empire from the United States

by Maya Jasanoff via The New Republic on August 22, 2019

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling in America

What happened to the great defender of Empire when he settled in the States?

by Charles McGrath via The New Yorker on July 1, 2019

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