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Murray Kempton, Around Forever: Resurrecting a Forgotten American Journalist

Murray Kempton, Around Forever: Resurrecting a Forgotten American Journalist

Andrew Holter on Executorship, Archives, and Literary Labors

By Andrew Holter | April 29, 2025

Robert Lowell! W.E.B. Du Bois on WWI! Black spies! 27 books out in paperback this April.

Robert Lowell! W.E.B. Du Bois on WWI! Black spies! 27 books out in paperback this April.

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 1, 2024

Poetry and Social Class: Robert Pinsky on His Many Readings of Robert Lowell

Poetry and Social Class: Robert Pinsky on His Many Readings of Robert Lowell

“A book I didn’t like, and for years ignored, had opened new possibilities for people I admired.”

By Robert Pinsky | October 13, 2022

Lee Kravetz on Sylvia Plath, 1950s Psychiatry, and Confessional Poets

Lee Kravetz on Sylvia Plath, 1950s Psychiatry, and Confessional Poets

The Last Confessions of Sylvia P. Talks to Jane Ciabattari">The Author of The Last Confessions of Sylvia P. Talks to Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | March 8, 2022

On the Friendship and Rivalry of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton

On the Friendship and Rivalry of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton

Gail Crowther Considers How Two Literary Icons Challenged and Inspired Each Other

By Gail Crowther | April 28, 2021

Ryo Yamaguchi on Finding—and Making—a Life as a Poet

Ryo Yamaguchi on Finding—and Making—a Life as a Poet

The Refusal of Suitors ">Peter Mishler Talks with the Author of The Refusal of Suitors

By Peter Mishler | March 25, 2021

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About Suffering, Robert Lowell Was Never Wrong

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