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How Middlemarch Helped Yang Huang Break Free from a History of Censorship

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June 14, 2021  By History of Literature
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On the Storied Life of Miguel de Cervantes and His Greatest Creation, Don Quixote

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June 7, 2021  By History of Literature
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How Fascism, Exile, and Tragedy Shaped Natalia Ginzburg’s Career

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June 1, 2021  By History of Literature
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On the the Ultimate Enfant Terrible of Poetry, Arthur Rimbaud

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May 24, 2021  By History of Literature
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What Can We Still Take from Philip Larkin?

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May 17, 2021  By History of Literature
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When Ralph Ellison Experienced a Forty-Year Writing Block

The History of Literature Podcast Explores the Longest Fallow Periods
May 10, 2021  By History of Literature
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On Salman Rushdie’s Devotion to the Art of Fiction

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May 3, 2021  By History of Literature
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How Djuna Barnes Joined the Lost Generation

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April 26, 2021  By History of Literature
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What It’s Like to Read Thucydides in 2021

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April 19, 2021  By History of Literature
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Five Ways to Read Henry James

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April 12, 2021  By History of Literature
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Revisiting the Work of Frances Burney, “Mother of English Fiction”

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April 5, 2021  By History of Literature
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Reckoning with Nabokov’s Classic, Controversial Lolita

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March 29, 2021  By History of Literature
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In Praise of “Bookish Broad” Willa Cather

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March 22, 2021  By History of Literature
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On Gabriel García Márquez’s Search for Truth in Nostalgia

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March 15, 2021  By History of Literature
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On the Turbulent Life and Dramatic Death of Yukio Mishima

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March 8, 2021  By History of Literature
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On the Brief Life and Towering Accomplishments of Lorraine Hansberry

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March 1, 2021  By History of Literature
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Anna North on Reimagining a Wild West… That’s Good to Mothers

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February 22, 2021  By History of Literature
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On the Lovability of Keats

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February 16, 2021  By History of Literature
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Chigozie Obioma: ‘I Really Do Believe That Fiction Should Say More Than One Thing’

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February 8, 2021  By History of Literature
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Searching for Mr. Darcy in Jane Austen’s Would-Be Suitor, Tom Lefroy

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February 1, 2021  By History of Literature
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