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Irving Howe on Literature and the Left
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The Old Magician
Reading the aged Tolstoy stirs the heart. He will not yield to time, sloth, or nature. He clings to the waist of the life force. Deep into old age, he battles with the world, more often with himself, returning in his diaries, fictions, and tracts to the unanswerable questions that torment him. Blessed old magician, he is free of literary posture and the sins of eloquence. READ MORE >>
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The Spell of Fagin
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Faulkner: End of a Road
The Mansion By William Faulkner (Random House, $4.75) READ MORE >>