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A Self-Made Myth: How Edith Wharton Rewrote Her Own Childhood

Constance Roisin on the Author’s Construction of Herself in Fiction and in Life

 
By Constance Roisin  November 12, 2024
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Fragile Yet Eternal: How Audre Lorde Continues to Inspire

By Alexis Pauline Gumbs  August 20, 2024
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“A Nation of Lunatics.” What Oscar Wilde Thought About America

By Rob Marland  March 11, 2024
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California State of Mind: Searching for Didion and Babitz in Literary Los Angeles

By Marianne Eloise  July 5, 2022
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Endings That Change Everything: On Alice Munro’s Literary Innovations

By Elizabeth Poliner  July 9, 2021
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Charles McGrath: On the Avant-Garde Literary Genius of Donald Barthelme

By Charles McGrath  June 29, 2021
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On Great Literary Loves and the Joyous, Complicated Brilliance of Walt Whitman

By Mark Edmundson  April 9, 2021
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Ten Savage Insults From Literary Icons

By Literary Hub  March 31, 2021
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Oscar Levant and Oscar Wilde: Masters of Staving Off Melancholy with Wit

By David Lazar  November 9, 2020

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