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  • Allen Ginsberg, crowned King of May, Prague, May Day 1965
    Allen Ginsberg, crowned King of May, Prague, May Day 1965
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    Allen Ginsberg Goes Behind the Iron Curtain

    Newly edited travel journals from 1965 show the poet infatuated and disillusioned with communist Cuba, Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, and Poland

    byJake Marmer
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    Ilya Kaminsky’s ‘Deaf Republic’

    National Poetry Month: A long-anticipated new collection infuses beauty and irony into a dystopian war epic

    byJake Marmer
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    Was Vladimir Jabotinsky the Zionist Nabokov?

    A look at the fearsome ideologue’s brilliant Odessa family novel, ‘The Five’

    byMarat Grinberg
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    Nowhere Man

    The poet Joseph Brodsky, kicked out of the USSR and never fully at ease writing in English, was a man of many residences and few homes, as a new biography shows

    byAdam Kirsch
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    Curtain Up

    Benjamin Harshav explores the Moscow Yiddish Theater

    byDan Elkind
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