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19th century

The Murder of Leo Tolstoy

by Elif Batuman,

A forensic investigation

What Edith knew

by Elizabeth Lowry,

Freeing Wharton from the master's shadow

Paper Pushkin

by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin,Translated by Simona Schneider,

From two 1824 letters by Aleksandr Pushkin to Aleksandr Kaznacheev. The first is in response to an assignment to investigate the extermination of locusts that Pushkin refused to undertake; the…

The master’s voice

by William H. Gass,

Henry James's curriculum vitae

Foul ball

by Harper’s Staff,

Buried in the life

by Terry Eagleton,

Thomas Hardy and the limits of biographies

The pragmatic American

by Denis Donoghue,

William James and our homegrown way of thought

The usual suspect

by Arthur Krystal,

Edgar Allan Poe, consulting detective

Mark’s twang

by Harper’s Staff,

A matter of practice

by Thoby Stephen,

A forest of bamboo