Literature

The Western Flyer: Steinbeck’s Boat, the Sea of Cortez, and the Saga of the Pacific Fisheries

Readers of John Steinbeck’s The Log of the Sea of Cortez will certainly recognize the Western Flyer as the boat…

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Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form

Helen Vendler is one of the most important literary critics in recent decades. This latest offering, Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and…

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Fitzgerald and Hemingway: Works and Days

In Fitzgerald and Hemingway: Works and Days, Scott Donaldson draws on his own remarkable writings, crafted over the last four…

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Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck has never been considered in the same league as William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, his fellow Nobel Prize…

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10 Things You Might Not Know About F. Scott Fitzgerald

1.Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was named after his distant cousin, who famously wrote the United States’ national anthem, “The…

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Three-Martini Lunches at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton

Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton in Robert Lowell’s poetry class in Boston are the stuff of lore, fostered by Sexton’s…

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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakepeare

Stephen Greenblatt’s book Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare is an enlightening biographical study of not only William Shakespeare,…

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Beckett: A Guide for the Perplexed

Beckett: A Guide for the Perplexed The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Beckett Samuel Beckett (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) People who…

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The Cambridge Introduction to Emily Dickinson

Visitors to Emily Dickinson’s family home in Amherst, Massachusetts—known familiarly as “The Homestead”—can still walk through the same gardens, kitchen,…

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Franz Kafka

Anyone working in law knows that intent is hard to prove. This fact makes Sander Gilman’s 2005 work, Franz Kafka,…

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