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Revelations and rehabilitation
In 1977, the Force was with us, Annie Hall taught the middle class to cross-dress, and Robert Lowell...
Vol. 32 No. 16 Published 08.28.03 by Scott Wilkerson -
SHELF SPACE
Alice in Blunderland
The title of Alice Walker's new collection of poems invites us to place our Absolute Trust in the Go...
Vol. 32 No. 7 Published 06.26.03 by Scott Wilkerson -
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Illusions of reality
Looking back at the collected Umberto Eco oeuvre, one is dazzled, perhaps equally, by the capaciousn...
Vol. 30 No. 36 Published 01.15.03 by Scott Wilkerson -
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Thar she blows
Fishing for Herman Melville's later years
Vol. 30 No. 17 Published 09.04.02 by Scott Wilkerson -
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Dueling poets
Stern and Schultz offer two different visions of the world
Vol. 30 No. 14 Published 08.14.02 by Scott Wilkerson -
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Speaking for the old guard
John Barth's Coming Soon!!!
Vol. 30 No. 8 Published 07.03.02 by Scott Wilkerson -
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Book Beat
The last few years have been good for the Nobel Prize in Literature: Poets Wislawa Szymborska and Se...
Vol. 30 No. 1 Published 05.16.01 by Scott Wilkerson -
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If it is true that many writers imagine their invented people as stylized projections of themselves,...
Vol. 30 No. 1 Published 05.16.01 by Scott Wilkerson -
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A.S. Byatt's new novel, The Biographer's Tale, is precisely what one might expect from a Cambridge e...
Vol. 29 No. 48 Published 04.11.01 by Scott Wilkerson -
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In the fall of 1997, two great literary events changed the weather in American letters: Kurt Vonnegu...
Vol. 29 No. 44 Published 03.14.01 by Scott Wilkerson -
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Romantic fool
Collection of letters reveals Wilde's imaginative wit
Vol. 29 No. 39 Published 02.10.01 by Scott Wilkerson -
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If the Microsoft antitrust case has variously enraged, delighted and perplexed most of us, then it i...
Vol. 29 No. 36 Published 01.20.01 by Scott Wilkerson -
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If the frisson of Bert Sugar's "long cigars and long nights" exemplifies anything at all, it is the...
Vol. 29 No. 30 Published 12.09.00 by Scott Wilkerson -
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Rabbit returns
Updike continues exploring the complexities of family life
Vol. 29 No. 29 Published 12.02.00 by Scott Wilkerson -
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Revisiting Nixon
Arrogance of Power a provocative version of the Nixon story
Vol. 29 No. 26 Published 11.11.00 by Scott Wilkerson -
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We have before us an occasion once again to celebrate the most singular achievement of Dante's Purga...
Vol. 29 No. 26 Published 11.11.00 by Scott Wilkerson -
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Henry Hart's masterful study of James Dickey reminds us that the poetics of a life are not finally r...
Vol. 29 No. 22 Published 10.14.00 by Scott Wilkerson -
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An expanded round-up of recent releases
Vol. 29 No. 22 Published 10.14.00 by Scott Wilkerson -
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Umberto Eco's Kant and the Platypus is neither exactly popular scholarship nor precisely scholarly e...
Vol. 29 No. 22 Published 10.14.00 by Scott Wilkerson -
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Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi have pioneered new regions of mereology, the philosophy of spatial...
Vol. 29 No. 22 Published 10.14.00 by Scott Wilkerson
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