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When Art Cannot Console Us in Death

When Art Cannot Console Us in Death

Emily Harnett on the Hard Art of the Death Memoir

By Emily Harnett | February 17, 2016

30 Books in 30 Days: Carmela Ciuraru on Colm Tóibín’s <em>On Elizabeth Bishop</em>

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By David Biespiel | February 16, 2016

30 Books in 30 Days: Mark Athitakis on Ottessa Moshfegh's <em>Eileen</em>

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Counting Down the National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalists

By Mark Athitakis | February 15, 2016

A. O. Scott Asks Himself: What is Criticism?

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One of America's Great Critics Has Some Questions—For Himself

By A. O. Scott | February 11, 2016

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