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How Kiki de Montparnasse Made Her Life Into a Work of Art

How Kiki de Montparnasse Made Her Life Into a Work of Art

Mark Braude on the Dueling Artistic Passions of Man Ray and a Muse With a Mind of Her Own

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Remembering Daphne Athas: Writer, Reader, Teacher, Mentor, Adventurer, Friend

Remembering Daphne Athas: Writer, Reader, Teacher, Mentor, Adventurer, Friend

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On Claude Simon’s Classic Nouveau Roman and the Possibilities of Fragmented Narrative

On Claude Simon’s Classic Nouveau Roman and the Possibilities of Fragmented Narrative

Jerry W. Carlson Deconstructs The Flanders Road

By Jerry W. Carlson | July 27, 2022

Meet Elinor Glyn, “Shocker of Grandmothers” and Founder of the Modern Sex Novel

Meet Elinor Glyn, “Shocker of Grandmothers” and Founder of the Modern Sex Novel

On the Author of the Most Widely Denounced Novel Published Before World War I

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Reckoning with the Memory of Jonas Mekas, Godfather of Avant-Garde Cinema

Reckoning with the Memory of Jonas Mekas, Godfather of Avant-Garde Cinema

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How Josephine Baker Learned to Hate the Nazis Before Most of America

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Reading Mahfouz: Egyptian Literature Between Old and New, Freedom and Censorship

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California State of Mind: Searching for Didion and Babitz in Literary Los Angeles

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