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Fireside Reading with Christopher Benfey: My Ántonia, An Invitation
My Ántonia is poetically conceived and deftly constructed, with many timely themes that have haunted American literature over the years
Jan 23
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Chris Benfey
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Diary: Christopher Benfey, The Kite Contest
Remember kites? Do children still fly them? Christopher Benfey recalls the half-repressed humiliations of the annual kite contest
Jun 16, 2023
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Review: Christopher Benfey on the Radical Transcendentalists
For Ralph Waldo Emerson—Waldo to his friends—turning thirty was not a happy event. “After thirty,” he wrote, “a man wakes up sad every morning.”
Nov 9, 2021
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Review: Christopher Benfey on Austrian storyteller Adalbert Stifter
Stifter was often accused in his lifetime of being little more than a bourgeois miniaturist, but his stories consistently have the sheer strangeness…
May 25, 2021
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Ann Kjellberg
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Diary: Christopher Benfey, Election Day
Some of our most enduring writers—Washington Irving, Herman Melville, and Nathaniel Hawthorne—set pivotal scenes in some of their greatest works on…
Sep 30, 2020
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Ann Kjellberg
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Review: Christopher Benfey on Mark Doty’s Whitman
Christopher Benfey on Mark Doty’s new memoir of reading Walt Whitman: How mystical experience and a passionate embrace of gay sex contributed to his…
Jun 25, 2020
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Ann Kjellberg
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Diary: Christopher Benfey on Learning Remotely
Christopher Benfey and his students wrestle remotely with Williams’s poem about the road to the contagious hospital
Apr 8, 2020
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Ann Kjellberg
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Review: Christopher Benfey on hunting in America
Christopher Benfey, a cultural critic who has written about Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, and much else in the…
Oct 11, 2018
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Ann Kjellberg
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