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Lisa Levy
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Second Acts: Delmore Schwartz
Stories by Delmore Schwartz are not nearly as abundant as stories about Delmore Schwartz. While the latter may be more amusing, they are ultimately tragic, for that is how Schwartz has gone down in history—as a tragic figure, a poète…
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A Peaceful, but Very Interesting Pursuit
Even after he published Prufrock and The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot continued to work his day job at a bank.
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Books as Fetish Objects
Unpacking My Library introduces a new sub-genre to coffee table books: library porn.
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Why not read Moby-Dick?
Historian Nathaniel Philbrick lays out a convincing, if scholarly, case for why Moby-Dick is relevant to modern audiences.