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How Claire Malroux's Translations of Emily Dickinson Shaped Her Own Poetry

How Claire Malroux's Translations of Emily Dickinson Shaped Her Own Poetry

Marilyn Hacker on Memory, Materiality, and Family

By Marilyn Hacker | November 9, 2020

The First Mughal Emperor's Towering Account of Exile, Bloody Conquest, and the Natural World

The First Mughal Emperor's Towering Account of Exile, Bloody Conquest, and the Natural World

William Dalrymple on the 16th-Century Memoir, Babur Nama

By William Dalrymple | November 5, 2020

Pankaj Mishra on an Oft-Misunderstood Russian Revolutionary Socialist

Pankaj Mishra on an Oft-Misunderstood Russian Revolutionary Socialist

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By Pankaj Mishra | November 2, 2020

Rituals of Housekeeping, Memories of Home: On Marilynne Robinson's<br> First Novel

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Madelaine Lucas Explores the Tensions Between Creative Work and Domestic Life

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A New, Monumental Biography Shows Sylvia Plath as a Woman of Her Time

A New, Monumental Biography Shows Sylvia Plath as a Woman of Her Time

Emily Van Duyne on Heather Clark's Red Comet

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On John Milton, the Gunpowder Plot, and the Poet Who Laughed at Purgatory

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On Jewish Community and Identity in Jacques Derrida's Algeria

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On Robert D. Richardson and the Art of Excavating Other People's Lives

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