Whitman

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Nobility Eclipsed

Sanctuary in the Wilderness: A Critical Introduction to American Hebrew PoetryBy Alan Mintz (Stanford University Press, 520 pp., $65) I. READ MORE >>

The Shaman

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Lasting Man

Saul Bellow: Letters Edited by Benjamin Taylor (Viking, 571 pp., $35) READ MORE >>

Click here to read the original article, “Mobs,” and click here to read Jed Perl’s response to this letter. To the Editors: READ MORE >>

The PICTURE: Mobs

Carded

The Original of Laura By Vladimir Nabokov Edited by Dmitri Nabokov (Knopf, 304 pp., $35)   READ MORE >>

Alfred Kazin: A Biography By Richard M. Cook (Yale University Press, 452 pp., $35) I. READ MORE >>

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