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Love Letters

The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
Cecily Parks

Whole Sight

On artistic passion.

Charles Johnson

Nabokov’s Gift

A writer's legacy.
Roger Boylan

In Search of John Ashbery

Beyond the same old pipings.
Forrest Gander

The Beginning of Wisdom

Like many other writers of his time, H.G. Wells thought of himself as a Man of the Future, but his style of self-presentation remained Victorian.
Vivian Gornick

Inside Madrasa

A personal history.

Ebrahim Moosa

Narayan Days

Rereading the master.
Laila Lalami

Job’s Hope

On not knowing God.

Ben-Zion Gold

American Legacy

On writing The Vagabonds.
Nicholas Delbanco

Conrad’s List

Working at the Eighth Street Bookshop in Greenwich Village.
M.G. Stephens

Another Country

Writing The Book of Hard Things.
Sue Halpern

A Dutchman with Very Dark Eyes and Hair You Could Call Raven-black

Writing Duke of Egypt.
Margriet de Moor

City Poems

Ten weeks with the East Harlem Poetry Project.
Maureen N. McLane

Homecoming

When I decided to tell the story of the dead in Yugoslavia, I learned the power of fiction as a political tool.

Natasha Radojcic-Kane

Victims for the Prosecution

A survivor of the embassy bombings on the limits of victim impact testimony.
Susan F. Hirsch

Under the Influence

The intoxicating power of Kate Braverman's first novel.
Rick Moody

The Territory of Trauma

A novelist confronts the ethics and politics of her art.

Joyce Hackett

The Last Gentleman

A friend and student remembers Richard Yates.
James Crumley

A Comedy with Animals

Ernest Hemingway, Jane Kendall Mason, and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"
Alane S. Mason

Primo Levi’s Last Moments

On that tragic Saturday, only his body was smashed.

Diego Gambetta

Uncle Franz’s Legacy

A personal history of two Germanies.
Vivian Rothstein

Skirmishes

Battling cystic fibrosis.
Rosemary Quigley

I. A. Richards at Harvard

The most extraordinary teacher of poetry I ever encountered.

Helen Vendler

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