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September 14, 2021
Damion Searls
The Impossible Life of Fernando Pessoa
The Portuguese writer lived through dozens of detailed alter egos. How much does his real identity matter?
April 2, 2019
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The Dean
Out of the ruins of war, Walter Gropius made a vital political community.
March 20, 2019
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Adventures in Modernism
The unlikely, energizing friendship of Hugh Kenner and Guy Davenport
August 30, 2014
Sarah Williams Goldhagen
The Great Architect Rebellion of 2014
This year's Venice Bienale demolishes the popular notion of modernism in architecture
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Edmund Wilson
From the Stacks: “Ulysses”
July 5, 1922
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Christopher Benfey
Becoming T. S. Eliot, for Better and for Worse
Eliot's Letters from 1926-1927

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