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    Room 222

    FICTION: Four seasons in academic hell

    byLeslie Epstein
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    When Norman Podhoretz Spent the Night With Allen Ginsberg

    An excerpt from the new ‘Exit Right’ describes a tumultuous evening when the beatnik confronted the neocon

    byDaniel Oppenheimer
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    (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine)
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    The Forgotten Founder of ‘Partisan Review’ Wrote Porn and Thrillers

    What happened when Kenneth Fearing’s Communist sympathies came up against his ideas about art?

    byRon Capshaw
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    (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photo Shutterstock)
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    The Tea Party’s New Front in the American Culture Wars: Literature

    What Adam Bellow and other conservatives get wrong about the political leanings of creators of imaginative fiction

    byAdam Kirsch
  • Hilton Kramer in 1985.(Jack Manning/NYT)
    Hilton Kramer in 1985.(Jack Manning/NYT)
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    Life Is Short, Art Is Important: Hilton Kramer

    Shivah Stars

    byMarc Tracy
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    (Margarita Korol)
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    Growing Pains: Delmore Schwartz, Forgotten Genius

    The writer Delmore Schwartz is largely forgotten today, but he once captured the anxieties and hopes of the Jewish intellectuals of the 1930s and stunned his generation with his poems and short stories

    byMorris Dickstein
  • Leon Trotsky(Wikimedia Commons)
    Leon Trotsky(Wikimedia Commons)
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    The Firebrand

    A new biography tries to extinguish the myth of the kinder, gentler Trotsky

    byAdam Kirsch
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    About-Face

    Whittaker Chambers, Lionel Trilling and the anti-Communist turn

    byAdam Kirsch
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