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Failure Is Our Muse

By STEPHEN MARCHEJULY 25, 2014


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Credit Bruno Zocca

JULY 8, in case you happened to miss it, was Fitz-Greene Halleck Day, a chance to remember the most intensely forgotten writer in American history. Continue reading

Don’t read this book: A history of literary censorship

Leo Robson reviews three new works concerned with banned literature.

BY LEO ROBSON PUBLISHED 25 JULY, 2014 – 12:35

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A Nazi book-burning. Photo: Getty
The Zhivago Affair: the Kremlin, the CIA and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book
Peter Finn and Petra Couvée Continue reading