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… The blog offers correspondence “deserving of a wider audience” (as its tagline runs). When possible, Usher’s blog … . When readers retweet these links, they inevitably add commentary to this effect: “Looks like nothing ever … to Patrick Henry Anderson, is one of the Letters of Note website’s most-visited pages.) Variations on the same theme …
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… the narrator leads his college’s white trustee on a darkly comic and ill-fated tour of the Black homes, brothel, and … literature in the 1990s and 2000s. I am thinking of Zadie Smith’s On Beauty , in which various biracial … identical, one laid over the other.” But, as the narrator points out, “there is a difference between entering someone, …
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… a bell jar and left room for a dozen bells: I knew she had committed suicide at age 30 by sticking her head in an oven, … from another poet, Ted Hughes, and that feminist intellectuals and scholars often took up Plath and her work as a … of Plath’s. Many of those poets, Alvarez argues, also died young and dramatically, but few incorporated death of …
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… to hold my hand if you don’t want to.” But she had made no complaints that night, had only said half seriously, “You … in wide arcs as they walked. But she was bright and was also first violinist in the school orchestra. Now Shushie … Budweiser on the kitchen floor. She says softly, “Oh . . . wow,” but the tone is not promising. He thinks she says …
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… peasant who suffers a humiliation and defeat that then becomes an exaltation and triumph. In a world where the … He is the much-lauded author of three books of poetry and also a collection of critical and personal essays, two … who have informed Wiman’s wide vista—Patrick Kavanagh, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Herbert, Hopkins, and Hill. Wiman’s own …
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… on, she was a regular presence in the salons of Ximena San Diego and Susana Lezcano Lafinur, dictators of taste in … reporters. Humiliated, she retired to her ranch in Azul, accompanied by a faithful few. Soothed by rural calm and the … who acted as her personal secretary. She spent the year 1926 traveling in Italy with her numerous entourage. In 1927 …