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20th century

Victor victorious

V.S. Pritchett, the grand old man of English letters

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Classics by the pound

The first four volumes in the Library of America are designed to sit on your bookshelf forever

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Where critics go wrong

The careers of Kenneth Tynan and Otis Ferguson

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Speedway

People don't just go to the Indianapolis 500 looking for gore

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State-of-the-art panhandling

Forget about charity--extracting $350 million requires a well-oiled fund-raising machine

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Art versus collectibles

Why museums should be filled with fakes

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August 1982

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