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Afterlives (3 Reviews) Christopher Benfey
Trying Conclusions, by Howard Nemerov
- Trying Conclusions by Howard Nemerov
- Selected Poems by Derek Mahon
- Seeing Things by Seamus Heaney

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The Age of Teddy (Review) Christopher Benfey
Rebirth of a Nation, by Jackson Lears
- Rebirth of a Nation by Jackson Lears

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The American Loneliness (Review) Christopher Benfey
The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder, by Robin G. Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer, and Thor...
- The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder by Robin G. Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer, and Thornton Wilder, ...

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Coming Home (Review) Christopher Benfey
Omeros, by Derek Walcott
- Omeros by Derek Walcott

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Covering Her Century (Review) Christopher Benfey
Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn, by Caroline Moorehead and Martha Gellhorn
- Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn by Caroline Moorehead and Martha Gellhorn

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The Critter Poet (2 Reviews) Christopher Benfey
Mountains and Rivers Without End, by Gary Snyder
- Mountains and Rivers Without End by Gary Snyder
- A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds by Gary Snyder

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Dark Darker Darkest (Review) Christopher Benfey
The Notebooks of Robert Frost, by Robert Faggen and Robert Frost
- The Notebooks of Robert Frost by Robert Faggen and Robert Frost

Degas and the "Black World"Christopher Benfey
Art and miscegenation in nineteenth-century New Orleans

Degas in New Orleans (1998)Christopher Benfey
Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable
1 Review


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The Demigod (Review) Christopher Benfey
Flaubert: A Biography, by Frederick Brown
- Flaubert: A Biography by Frederick Brown

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Deserters (2 Reviews) Christopher Benfey
Novels, 1920-1925, by John Dos Passos
- Novels, 1920-1925 by John Dos Passos
- Travel Books and Other Writings, 1916-1941 by John Dos Passos

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Dickinson's Children (2 Reviews) Christopher Benfey
Unfinished Painting, by Mary Jo Salter
- Unfinished Painting by Mary Jo Salter
- Take Heart by Molly Peacock

The Dickinsons of Amherst (2001)Christopher Benfey, Polly Longsworth, and Barton Levi St. Armand, ...
1 Review

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The Ding-Dong of Doom (Review) Christopher Benfey
One Matchless Time, by Jay Parini
- One Matchless Time by Jay Parini

The Double Life of Stephen Crane (1992)Christopher Benfey
3 Reviews, 1 Readable

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Emily's Revolution (Review) Christopher Benfey
Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries, by Helen Vendler
- Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries by Helen Vendler


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The Escape of the Collyers (Review) Christopher Benfey
Homer and Langley, by E.L. Doctorow
- Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow

ExpectingChristopher Benfey

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The Family Man (2 Reviews) Christopher Benfey
James Agee, Vol. II, by Michael Sragow and James Agee
- James Agee, Vol. II by Michael Sragow and James Agee
- James Agee, Vol. I by Michael Sragow and James Agee

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Family Values (Review) Christopher Benfey
History: The Home Movie, by Craig Raine
- History: The Home Movie by Craig Raine

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Flawed Perfection (2 Reviews) Christopher Benfey
Savage Beauty, by Nancy Milford
- Savage Beauty by Nancy Milford
- What Lips My Lips Have Kissed by Daniel Mark Epstein

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Glamorous Pictures (Review) Christopher Benfey
James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years, by Wayne Franklin
- James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years by Wayne Franklin

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The Hunger Artists (3 Reviews) Christopher Benfey
Dancing in the Dark, by Morris Dickstein
- Dancing in the Dark by Morris Dickstein
- Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon
- American Hungers by Gavin Jones

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Inconstant Anderson (2 Reviews) Christopher Benfey
Letters to Bab, by Sherwood Anderson and William A. Sutton
- Letters to Bab by Sherwood Anderson and William A. Sutton
- Kit Brandon: A Portrait by Sherwood Anderson

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Lady in the Dark (Review) Christopher Benfey
Emily Dickinson, by Cynthia Griffin Wolff
- Emily Dickinson by Cynthia Griffin Wolff

LettersSanjay Amin, Colin Wilson, Martin Gardner, and Kevin Sweeney, ...

LettersDavid Stoll, Peter Canby, Barbara E. Joe, and Susan Howe, ...

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The Limits of Fun (Review) Christopher Benfey
The Last Avant-Garde, by David Lehman
- The Last Avant-Garde by David Lehman

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Love in the Ruins (2 Reviews) Christopher Benfey
Walker Percy: A Life, by Patrick H. Samway
- Walker Percy: A Life by Patrick H. Samway
- The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy by Jay Tolson, Shelby Foote, and Walker Percy

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Mary McCarthy's Room (Review) Christopher Benfey
A Jury of Her Peers, by Elaine Showalter
- A Jury of Her Peers by Elaine Showalter

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Meet John Smith (Review) Christopher Benfey
Dream Song, by Paul Mariani
- Dream Song by Paul Mariani

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Mr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit (2 Reviews) Christopher Benfey
Raymond Carver: Collected Stories, by William L. Stull, Maureen P. Carroll, and Raymond...
- Raymond Carver: Collected Stories by William L. Stull, Maureen P. Carroll, and Raymond Carver, ...
- Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life by Carol Sklenicka

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The Mysterious Mythmaker of New York (Review) Christopher Benfey
Knickerbocker, by Elizabeth L. Bradley
- Knickerbocker by Elizabeth L. Bradley

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The Mystery of Emily Dickinson (3 Reviews) Christopher Benfey
The Poems of Emily Dickinson, by R.W. Franklin and Emily Dickinson
- The Poems of Emily Dickinson by R.W. Franklin and Emily Dickinson
- Open Me Carefully by Emily Dickinson, Ellen Louise Hart, and Martha Nell Smith, ...
- The Emily Dickinson Handbook by Gudrun Grabher, Roland Hagenbuchle, and Cristanne Miller, ...

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Native American (Review) Christopher Benfey
Writing Was Everything, by Alfred Kazin
- Writing Was Everything by Alfred Kazin

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The Ohioan (Review) Christopher Benfey
Above the River, by James Wright
- Above the River by James Wright

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Poet in the Sun Belt (Review) Christopher Benfey
Randall Jarrell's Letters, by Mary Jarrell and Randall Jarrell
- Randall Jarrell's Letters by Mary Jarrell and Randall Jarrell

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Portraits and Puzzles (Review) Christopher Benfey
Flow Chart, by John Ashbery
- Flow Chart by John Ashbery

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Questions of Travel (Review) Christopher Benfey
Becoming a Poet, by David Kalstone and Robert Hemenway
- Becoming a Poet by David Kalstone and Robert Hemenway

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'The Real Critter' (3 Reviews) Christopher Benfey
On Whitman, by C.K. Williams
- On Whitman by C.K. Williams
- Three American Poets by William C. Spengemann
- Song of Myself and Other Poems by Walt Whitman and Robert Hass

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Rilke In America (9 Reviews) Christopher Benfey
The Best of Rilke, by Rainer Maria Rilke
- The Best of Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke
- The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke by Stephen Mitchell and Rainer Maria Rilke
- Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke
- The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke
- The Book of Images by Rainer Maria Rilke
- New Poems [1907] by Rainer Maria Rilke
- New Poems, 1908: The Other Part by Rainer Maria Rilke
- The Unknown Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke

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A Sense of Place (3 Reviews) Christopher Benfey
Eudora Welty: Stories, Essays and Memoir, by Richard Ford, Michael Kreyling, and Eudora...
- Eudora Welty: Stories, Essays and Memoir by Richard Ford, Michael Kreyling, and Eudora Welty, ...
- Eudora Welty: Complete Novels by Richard Ford, Michael Kreyling, and Eudora Welty, ...
- Eudora Welty: A Writer's Life by Ann Waldron

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Sex and the City (Review) Christopher Benfey
Republic of Dreams, by Ross Wetzsteon
- Republic of Dreams by Ross Wetzsteon

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Sing for Me, Muse, the Mania (Review) Christopher Benfey
Words in Air, by Thomas Travisano, Saskia Hamilton, and Elizabeth Bishop, ...
- Words in Air by Thomas Travisano, Saskia Hamilton, and Elizabeth Bishop, ...

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Strangely Sinister in Saratoga (Review) Christopher Benfey
The Fall of the House of Walworth, by Geoffrey O'Brien
- The Fall of the House of Walworth by Geoffrey O'Brien

A Summer of Hummingbirds (2008)Christopher Benfey
Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Tw...
3 Reviews

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Tea with Okakura (Review) Christopher Benfey
The Book of Tea, by Kakuzo Okakura
- The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura

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Telling It Slant (3 Reviews) Christopher Benfey
Epistemology of the Closet, by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
- Epistemology of the Closet by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
- Disseminating Whitman by Michael Moon
- Hart Crane and the Homosexual Text by Thomas E. Yingling

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Three Ways of Looking at Thomas Eakins (3 Reviews) Christopher Benfey
Eakins Revealed, by Henry Adams and Thomas Eakins
- Eakins Revealed by Henry Adams and Thomas Eakins
- The Revenge of Thomas Eakins by Sidney D. Kirkpatrick
- Portrait: The Life of Thomas Eakins by William McFeely

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Transcendental Woman (3 Reviews) Christopher Benfey
Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, Vol. II, by Charles Capper
- Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, Vol. II by Charles Capper
- Margaret Fuller: Wandering Pilgrim by Meg McGavran Murray
- Fuller in Her Own Time by Joel Myerson

Two PoemsChristopher Benfey

Two PoemsChristopher Benfey

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The War Between the Tates (2 Reviews) Christopher Benfey
Allen Tate: Orphan of the South, by Thomas A. Underwood
- Allen Tate: Orphan of the South by Thomas A. Underwood
- Essays of Four Decades by Allen Tate

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The Way of Distortion (Review) Christopher Benfey
Flannery, by Brad Gooch
- Flannery by Brad Gooch
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