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The unfinished life of Weldon Kees
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The ragged core of a sweet apple
Can a biography of W.B. Yeats rely on historical fact alone?
The liberal responsibility of Raymond Aron
The intimate photography of Diane Arbus
John O'Hara gains a defender
Kate Chopin and the wages of liberation
Notes on our decadent press
The Norton Anthology may be bigger, but is it any better?
The contradictions of V.S. Naipaul
What distinguishes art from everything else?
Michel Houellebecq's new novel
James Wood???s first novel
The intrigues of Alan Furst
Rediscovering Edward Whittemore's epic invention
Stephen Jay Gould's opus posthumous
The enigma of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli
In defense of the Big Idea
The fictions of Mavis Gallant
Reconsidering Jewish history
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