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Tag: Writing and Writers
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Sir Tom Stoppard Returns to New York With ‘Leopoldstadt’
After years of living “as if without history,” the playwright belatedly reckons with his Jewish roots, and his guilt, in “Leopoldstadt,” his most autobiographical play.
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What Should High Schoolers Read?
Kaitlyn Greenidge and Esau McCaulley on why America’s schools can’t get on the same page about required reading lists.
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Peter Straub, Literary Master of the Supernatural, Dies at 79
A fan of Henry James and John Ashbery, he brought a poet’s sensibility to stories about ghosts, demons and other things that go bump in the night.
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Review: “Eliot After ‘The Waste Land,’” by Robert Crawford
“Eliot After ‘The Waste Land,’” the second volume of Robert Crawford’s two-part biography, offers some answers — and some revelations.