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The Greatest Violin No One's Ever Heard

The Greatest Violin No One's Ever Heard

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By Quincy Whitney | April 8, 2016

Remembering Susan Sontag's Final Days

Remembering Susan Sontag's Final Days

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At the Existentialist Café

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Neither Mad Nor Motherless: On Emily Dickinson's Self-Creation

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A Life in Letters: From the New Republic to Iowa to Knopf...

97-Year-Old Doris Grumbach Looks Back on a Literary Life

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Janet Malcolm: Biased, Mean, and Brilliant

Janet Malcolm: Biased, Mean, and Brilliant

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A Day in the Life of a West Virginia Coal Miner

A Day in the Life of a West Virginia Coal Miner

Cave-ins, explosions, and hard, brutal work

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David Bowie, Visitor to Planet Earth

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