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History and criticism

American Expansion

The innovations of A.R. Ammons

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Abandon All Hope

Hieronymus Bosch comes home

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To Laugh That We May Not Weep

A nearly forgotten cartoonist we need to look at — right now!

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Counter Culture

Fighting for literature in an age of algorithms

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The Torment and the Engine

From an interview in the Spring 2015 issue of The Paris Review. Elena Ferrante is the pseudonym of an Italian novelist whose books include The Days of Abandonment, My Brilliant…

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Ways of Being Silent

from the archive 50 years ago in Harper’s Magazine Literary history and the present are dark with silences: the years-long silences of acknowledged greats; the ceasing to publish after one…

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The Sharp Edge of Life

By Saul Bellow, from a previously unpublished essay written in 1951 and included in There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction, edited by Benjamin Taylor and out…

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