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Eyeball and Over-Soul: Biographer James Marcus on the Infinitude of Ralph Waldo Emerson
May 24, 2024
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“You Want to Possess the Words”: Jay Parini on Why We Can’t Stop Reading Robert Frost
May 15, 2024
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“Away from the Crowd”: Dan Barry on the Iconoclastic Genius of Jimmy Breslin
April 18, 2024
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Commitment, Capacity, Compassion: Kim E. Nielsen on American Icon Helen Keller
March 21, 2024
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“Calling It an ‘Adventure’ Would Be Redundant”: Novelist Percival Everett on His Explosive Reimagining of Huckleberry Finn
March 20, 2024
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“Southern Weird”: Biographer Mary V. Dearborn on the Transgressive Life and Fiction of Carson McCullers
February 29, 2024
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“The Most Demanding Form”: Theresa M. Towner on William Faulkner’s Radiant Short Fiction
February 23, 2024
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“That Difficult Work of Digging”: Jessica Hooten Wilson on Flannery O’Connor’s Final, Unfinished Novel
February 16, 2024
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“Monstrosities Do Not Come Out of Nowhere”: Lyndsey Stonebridge on the Timely Political Lessons of Hannah Arendt
February 1, 2024
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“Someone Shone a Light Suddenly into the Darkness”: James G. Basker on Uncovering the Vital Voices of Black Americans During the Founding Era
January 5, 2024
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“Extremely Orderly and Uncrazy”: Benjamin Taylor on His Revelatory New Biography of Willa Cather
December 6, 2023
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Moby-Reddick: Merve Emre on John A. Williams’s Great American Novel
November 29, 2023
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“She Served Me Elk Once”: Documentarian Arwen Curry on Her Decade-Long Encounter with Ursula K. Le Guin
November 13, 2023
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“Every Variety of Madness and Malevolence”: Geoffrey O’Brien on American Crime Fiction in the 1960s
September 28, 2023
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“Experimental in the Fullest Sense”: Marc Robinson on the Convention-Shattering Works of Adrienne Kennedy
September 11, 2023
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The Other American Gothic: Director Cody Knotts on Adapting Charles Brockden Brown’s Macabre Masterpiece for Film
June 13, 2023
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