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“As If You Was a Insect”

by Matthew Karp,

“How little the real characteristics of the working-classes are known to those who are outside them,” lamented Marian Evans in 1856. She had reason to feel she knew better. The…

“Put on the Diamonds”

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Vivian Gornick, Sigrid Nunez

On the act of eating one’s words (and worse): Vivian Gornick and Sigrid Nunez discuss the experience of humiliation

“Put on the Diamonds”

by Vivian Gornick,

Notes on humiliation

The virtues of male novelists

by Harper’s Staff,

A writer’s recollections (part III)

by Humphry Mrs. Ward,

Editor’s easy chair

by Harper’s Staff,

Editor’s easy chair

by William Dean Howells,

Reminiscences of George Eliot

by Frederic Harrison,

Editor’s study

by William Dean Howells,

— (IV)

by Harper’s Staff,

Editor’s literary record

by Harper’s Staff,

George Eliot

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“As If You Was a Insect”

“Put on the Diamonds”

“Put on the Diamonds”

The virtues of male novelists

A writer’s recollections (part III)

Editor’s easy chair

Editor’s easy chair

Reminiscences of George Eliot

Editor’s study

— (IV)

Editor’s literary record

April 1885

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