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History and criticism

Greatness as a literary standard

by Stanley Kauffmann,

by Gore Vidal,

On misusing the past

by Tillie Olsen,

When writers don't write

by Kenneth Rexroth,

Their own language

by Ruth Hill Viguers,

How to winnow the good ones out of the heaps of chaff

by Ellen Moers,

by Harper’s Staff,

by Harper’s Staff,

by Hubert Lamb,