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Diary: Rachel Cohen, A Chance Meeting: Sarah Orne Jewett
Literary friends visit Henry James in his country house, they take a carriage ride, eat cakes, and there is a bit of trouble with his dog.
Mar 15
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Willa Cather: A Conversation with Chris Benfey and Ben Taylor
A recording of our conversation on Sunday, March 3, concluding Chris Benfey's Book Post Fireside Reading of My Àntonia
Mar 15
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Review: Sarah Ruden on Marilynne Robinson‘s Genesis
“The proper work of preaching and religious teaching is simply love, Robinson’s great topic in the novels—not romantic love but the helpless needs and…
Mar 12
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Notebook: Up with Putting
by Ann Kjellberg, editor A rule the news of whose life was greatly exaggerated
Mar 8
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Review: John Banville on James Marcus’s Emerson
There is something in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s life and work that speaks directly to the troubled heart. Certainly he had troubles enough of his own…
Mar 5
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Join us today, 2 PM (EST) for a virtual conversation with Chris Benfey and Benjamin Taylor
Chris Benfey, host of our recently concluded My Àntonia reading group joins Willa Cather biographer Benjamin Taylor, Book Post editor Ann Kjellberg, and…
Mar 3
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Ann Kjellberg
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My Àntonia: Conclusion, Book Five
Cather’s endings always surprise me. We generally get a certain raggedness, a change of direction, a lingering ambiguity or uncertainty.
Mar 3
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Chris Benfey
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Diary: Eric Kandel on the Beholder‘s Share
Freud was not the only person developing insights into unconscious mental processes in turn-of-the-century Vienna. Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, and…
Mar 1
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February 2024
Review: Peter Brooks on Robert Darnton’s “Revolutionary Temper“
Spending hours in the archives with ephemeral writings, fly sheets, and nouvelles à la main, Robert Darnton uncovers the hidden history of how a whole…
Feb 27
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My Àntonia: Books Three and Four
Book Three works by juxtaposition—chaste Cleric versus sensual Lena. Book Four also has a divided focus, two pioneer women's stories, Ántonia’s bitter…
Feb 25
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Chris Benfey
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Notebook: Readers and Writers Finding Each Other
by Ann Kjellberg, editor Romance is carrying fiction, which is carrying publishing these days. What the romance boom has to teach other kinds of writing…
Feb 23
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Ann Kjellberg
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Review: Yasmine El Rashidi on Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
You never forget the first dead body you see shot on the streets of the place you call home. The sight of the dead heaped on the corner of your city’s…
Feb 20
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