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CRITICISM / Winter 1995

Hearing Lillian Smith

By Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr.
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Spring 1930

Six More Biographies

By Frederick P. Mayer
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CRITICISM / Spring 1942

Truth About Poe

By Hardin Craig
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POETRY / Spring 2012

Story of My Life

By David Lehman
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CRITICISM / Fall 2012

The Kerouac Voice

By Mindy Aloff
CRITICISM / Fall 2018

Returning the Gaze

By Maurice Carlos Ruffin
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James Boswell and Samuel Johnson: The Original Odd Couple

By Robert Zaretsky
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CRITICISM / Winter 2002

Spoon River Bard

By Stephen Cushman
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CRITICISM / Spring 2002

A Consummate Artist

By Roberta Silman
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ESSAYS / Summer 2002

The Good, the Bad, and the Phony: Six Famous Historians and Their Critics

By Michael Nelson
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