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The complete Open Letters Monthly Archive.
Coming of age after World War I, Auden took the alienation of his generation and sharpened it to a special keenness; he transformed his disaffected modernism into an immortal body of work that still challenges today.
Read More"Ellis, Leyner, Leavitt, Franzen, Powers…their fictions reduce to complaints and self-pity. Dostoevski has balls.” This and other gleanings from a trip to the David Foster Wallace archives.
Read MoreThe raw sexuality of the Catullus' love poems keeps them alive even today, and the things he implied about Julius Caesar STILL can't be repeated in polite conversation - how do we deal with this young man who's always making us feel just a bit uncomfortable?
Read MoreBooks have been with us for thousands of years, and books about books for very nearly that long. The world of books teems with themes, and in the latest massive Oxford Companion, that world receives a bestiary with hopes of being definitive.
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