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When Judith Jones Brought Sylvia Plath and Julia Child to American Bookshelves

Sara B. Franklin on the Legendary Editor’s Mentorship of Two Iconic Authors

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Art as Inspiration: How Collage Can Help Create Compelling Characters

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Emma Copley Eisenberg Explores Another Kind of Craft Technique

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How Willa Cather Chronicled the Development of American Theater

How Willa Cather Chronicled the Development of American Theater

James Shapiro on the Social and Cultural Impact of Film’s Triumph Over the Stage

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The Special Challenges of Attempting a New Translation of Kafka

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Mark Harman on Learning to Understand Both the Surfaces and “Subterranean Passages” of Kafka

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Nora Kenworthy on 21st-Century Patchwork Solutions to Persistent Social Inequality

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Respectability Be Damned: How the Harlem Renaissance Paved the Way for Art by Black Nonbelievers

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