Edmund-Wilson

Author Reconsideration: The A, B, and C of Sue Grafton

March 12, 2022
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The conveniently tidy endings do turn killing into an entertainment. They also allow us to briefly believe in redemption. And that is not the vainest of hopes.

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Book Review: “The Feud” — Brilliant Literary Frenemies

February 8, 2017
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Alex Beam generates interest via his portrait of frenemies Edmund Wilson and Vladimir Nabokov as brainy but flawed human beings.

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Book Review: Edmund Wilson — Prophet of the Blogosphere, Part 2

October 27, 2007
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Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature (Paperback) By Lewis M. Dabney. Johns Hopkins University Press, 672 pages, $25. Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & 30s (Library of America #176) By Edmund Wilson. Edited by Lewis M. Dabney. 1026 pages, $40. Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s (Library of America #177)…

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Book Review: Edmund Wilson — A Paleface of a Redskin, Part 1

October 20, 2007
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Back in the ’30s, Philip Rahv memorably divided American fiction writers into redskins and palefaces — Mark Twain epitomized the wild men, Henry James the civilized — a chasm that today may be outmoded or politically indelicate. But Lewis M. Dabney’s fine biography of Edmund Wilson suggests that when it comes to assessing literary critics…

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Books Commentary: Trashy Modern Classics

July 31, 2007
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More evidence bean counters will be picking the classics of the future: two novels by Ayn Rand – the unhinged saint of unbridled capitalism – have been reissued as Penguin Modern Classics.

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