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STYLES OF RADICAL WILL
Scott McLemee's recent consideration of the writer Isaac Rosenfeld in his IHE column, Intellectual Affairs, reawakens my own long fascination...
FIRST WE FEEL. THEN WE FALL.
"One wants glimpses of the real," wrote Harold Brodkey in his last journal entry before his death. "One almost never...
A PERSON WHO BLOGS
The latest controversy over the outing of an anonymous blogger has UD thinking about privacy and writing. It was by...
UD AND THE TEACHING COMPANY
I rail against distance learning, laptops in classrooms, PowerPoint, and other trends toward too much technology in university life, yet...
TWO CENTENARIES
2009 is the centenary of both Malcolm Lowry and James Agee.James Dickey coupled them: [M]y personal heroes of the [totally...
To My Friend David, In Memory of his Sister, Eve Sedgwick
A Letter from Key West To My Friend David, In Memory of his Sister, Eve Sedgwick The southernmost sky is...
RADIANCE
This year's winner of the Pritzker architecture prize, Peter Zumthor, has a rare ability to convey in words the spirit...
A Sonnet for Nicholas Hughes
Each suicide writes a new life storyWith obvious portents like something out of Dreiser Or like the junior high school...