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Mad Girl’s Love Song by Andrew Wilson
... Even when discussion of Plath’s biography gets beyond her death, it often eddies around the years that Plath knew Hughes, to the neglect of the other two-thirds of her life. Enter Andrew Wilson...
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Dark Knight of the Soul
... before Caravaggio committed a murder in Rome), the artist portrays not a beatific figure but the glowering face of a solitary man. In his new biography of Caravaggio, journalist and critic Andrew...
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Man for All Seasons
... writers, while George Weigel, the conservative Catholic apologist, devoted a chapter of his Letters to a Young Catholic to a series of gently annotated Chesterton quotes. Garry Wills, the liberal...
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The Not-So-Great Game
... battle,” he said of the young warriors, then still all but invisible to the West. “But the Talibs are fanatics. They will never give up. You must warn your government; tell them not to support them...
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American Imperiled
... sharp lines and edges of a Charles Sheeler painting. In 1962, Andrew Sarris wrote that Fonda was “our most truthful actor,” and surely this impression owes something to Fonda’s honest physicality...
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Aug 2, 2012 @ 12:09:00 am
... Silverman considers the warning signs that suggest that a promising young journalist is developing dangerous habits
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"College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be" by Andrew Delbanco
... been worth more, relative to the high school degree, than it is today. Bill Gates and President Obama call for a doubling of the proportion of young adults with college degrees over the next decade...
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Bookforum talks to John Jeremiah Sullivan
... of what I was trying to do with this story was to figure out what’s actually going on and what it’s like to be young and Irish right now. Bookforum: Why do you call being Southern an affectation...
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Something Urgent I Have to Say to You by Herbert Leibowitz
... Though Williams corresponded with peers such as Pound, Wallace Stevens, and James Laughlin (the rich young publisher of New Directions who first introduced Williams’s work to a wider audience...
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I Love This Dirty Town
... motion the intellectual-journalistic establishment. . . . Yet it didn’t happen, they never assumed command.” And all the rest: Ron Rosenbaum, Andrew Sarris, Deborah Jowitt--bold writers, little giants...
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We the Animals by Justin Torres
... Take out the dinosaurs, the formation of the universe, and Sean Penn, and The Tree of Life, Terence Malick’s summer anti-blockbuster, is a film about the charged, unspoken bonds of a young...
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Sep 13, 2011 @ 4:00:00 am
... at an initial list composed of chefs, enthusiasts, fighters, musicians, and dead essayists.” Andrew Hultkrans reviews Bob Mould’s new memoir about indie rock
