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Articles with keyword "Publishing"

Photo portrait of Barbara Tuchman

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The Dramatist

By Meredith Hindley

Barbara Tuchman saw history as a grand tragedy

James Agee portrait, standing in a window.

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Let Us Now Praise James Agee

By Danny Heitman

The journalist who pioneered serious film criticism showed a cinematic touch in all of his writing.

"Disatisfied": a woodblock illustration by Lafcadio Hearn

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Lafcadio Hearn in New Orleans

By Danny Heitman

The misfit journalist felt at home in the marginalized world he wrote about.

 

Photo portrait of Philip Larkin

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"Moving and Memorable"

By Francis-Noël Thomas

The complete poems of Philip Larkin

Civil War-era group portrait of blacks near the James River in Virginia

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Reading the Civil War

By Adam Kirsch

The moral and political dilemmas of the time seem so clear in retrospect.

Hurston playing with children

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Zora's Place

By Anne Trubek

To understand her, you need to understand Eatonville—and vice versa.

open King James Bible

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The Everlasting Bible

By Paul Gutjahr

New translations of the Bible have sought to make it accessible to everyone.

business letter in Audubon's handwriting

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Audubon the Writer

By Danny Heitman

The celebrated bird portraitist was also a great artist of the written word.

Battercake

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Words of America

By Michael Adams

The final volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English approaches

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Baskerville Hounded

From The Most Disreputable Trade: Publishing the Classics of English Poetry 1765–1810 by Thomas F. Bonnell, published by Oxford University Press, 2008.