The Patagonian Hare: A Memoir
Adriana Hunter, Frank Wynne and Claude Lanzmann
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Born to a Jewish family in Paris, 1925, Lanzmann's first encounter with radicalism was as part of...
The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries
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When Jessa Crispin was thirty, she burned her settled Chicago life to the ground and took off for...
Freshwater
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An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self....
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Why Dylan Matters
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A GUARDIAN AND INDEPENDENT BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2017 ‘At last an expert classicist gets to grips...
J.M. Coetzee: Two Screenplays: Waiting for the Barbarians and in the Heart of the Country
J.M. Coetzee and Hermann Wittenberg
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J.M. Coetzee's screenplay versions of In the Heart of the Country and Waiting for the Barbarians are...
Substance of Shadow: A Darkening Trope in Poetic History
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John Hollander, poet and scholar, was a master whose work joined luminous learning and imaginative...
Apollinaire and the Great War, 1914-18
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A major literary figure in pre-war Paris, Guillaume Apollinaire volunteered for war in 1914, trained...
American Guides: The Federal Writers' Project and the Casting of American Culture
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In the midst of the Great Depression, Americans were nearly universally literate--and they were...
Becoming John Updike: Critical Reception, 1958-2010
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When John Updike died in 2009, tributes from the literary establishment were immediate and fulsome....