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Siding with Ahab
Can we appreciate Herman Melville’s work without attributing to it schemes for the uplift of modern man?
by
Christopher Benfey
via
New York Review of Books
on
July 25, 2024
Emerson & His ‘Big Brethren’
A new book explores the final days of Ralph Waldo Emerson - traveling from Concord to California, and beyond.
by
Christopher Benfey
via
New York Review of Books
on
September 29, 2022
Pranksters and Puritans
Why Thomas Morton seems to have taken particular delight in driving the Pilgrims and Puritans out of their minds.
by
Christopher Benfey
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New York Review of Books
on
February 15, 2021
Triumph and Disaster: The Tragic Hubris of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If—’
The long and complicated life of Kipling's famous poem.
by
Christopher Benfey
via
New York Review of Books
on
July 3, 2019
The Short, Sad Story of Stanwix Melville
Piecing back together the forgotten history of Herman Melville's second son.
by
Christopher Benfey
via
New York Review of Books
on
October 30, 2017
