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American authors

Above Politics

by Hari Kunzru,

For all those involved in the publication and dissemination of ideas, freedom of expression is the foundation on which our work depends. Like many writers, I have campaigned to defend…

To have and have shot

by Ernest Hemingway,

The long goodbye

by Will Frears,

James Ellroy tries to let go

Beat to the punch

by William S. Burroughs,

Death by icicle

by Patrick Dacey,

Democracy 101

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Mark Twain's farewell address

Untitled

Art by Jeffrey Smith,

The elder modernist

by Wells Tower,

Like a ten-minute egg

by Raymond Chandler,

Between insanity and fat dullness

by Phillip Lopate,

How I became an Emersonian

Bellow in purgatory

by Nathaniel Rich,

The middle novels