The larger meaning of the sordid little tale

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The audacity of still life

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The poetry of Mahmoud Darwish

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A Habsburg prince's bid for Ukraine

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Katherine Anne Porter and the lies of art

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Freeing Wharton from the master's shadow

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Roberto Bolaño’s magnum opus

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The blues becomes transparent about itself

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What happened to the icon of ’68?

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Notes on a never-ending decade

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Why should we look for comfort in poetry?

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The politics of literary scapegoating

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Fire, water, gas, heat, dust, negligence, ignorance, malice, collectors, book sellers, book worms, insects, children, and servants”—these, according to William Blades in Enemies of Books (1880), are the agents most…

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Henry James's curriculum vitae

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Did Mahler get the biographer he deserves?

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Rodolphe T??¶pffer's squiggles and squibs

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From Plato to Penrose, the music is the message

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Resisting the tyranny of the brain

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Gershom Scholem's decisive years

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Errol Morris and the "bad apples"

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