Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and educated at the University of Kentucky and Columbia University. A recipient of a Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is the author of three novels, a biography of Herman Melville, and four collections of essays. She was a co-founder and advisory editor of The New York Review of Books and contributed more than one hundred reviews, articles, reflections, and letters to the magazine. NYRB Classics publishes Sleepless Nights, a novel, and Seduction and Betrayal, a study of women in literature.
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On Sylvia Plath
May 23, 2013
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Barbara Epstein (1928–2006)
August 10, 2006
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Susan Sontag (1933–2004)
February 10, 2005
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Funny as a Crutch
November 6, 2003
Nathanael West: Novels and Other Writings
selected and with notes by Sacvan Bercovitch
Nathanael West
by Robert Emmet Long
Nathanael West: A Collection of Critical Essays
edited by Jay Martin
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Among the Savages
July 17, 2003
The Golovlyov Family
by Shchedrin, translated from the Russian by Natalie Duddington, with an introduction by James Wood
Sketches of Provincial Life by Saltykov-Shchedrin, translated from the Russian and with notes by Frederic Aston
The History of a Town
by Saltykov-Shchedrin, translated from the Russian and edited by Susan Brownsberger
The Pompadours: A Satire on the Art of Government
by Saltykov-Shchedrin, translated from the Russian and with an introduction by David Magarshack
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On ‘The Unpossessed’
September 26, 2002
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Pilgrim’s Progress
June 27, 2002
Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street
by Richard Lingeman
Sinclair Lewis: An American Life
by Mark Schorer
Sinclair Lewis: Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth edited by Richard Lingeman
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Celebrities
July 19, 2001
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
by Laura Hillenbrand
Wild Ride: The Rise and Tragic Fall of Calumet Farm, Inc., America’s Premier Racing Dynasty
by Ann Hagedorn Auerbach
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The Foster Father
May 17, 2001
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The Torrents of Wolfe
November 16, 2000
O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life
by Thomas Wolfe, text established by Arlyn Bruccoli, by Matthew J. Bruccoli
The Notebooks of Thomas Wolfe edited by Richard S. Kennedy, edited by Paschal Reeves
Of Time and the River
by Thomas Wolfe
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe
by David Herbert Donald
The Web and the Rock
by Thomas Wolfe
You Can’t Go Home Again
by Thomas Wolfe
Look Homeward, Angel
by Thomas Wolfe
To Loot My Life Clean: The Thomas Wolfe-Maxwell Perkins Correspondence
edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli, edited by Park Bucker
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Melville in Love
June 15, 2000
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Far from Rome
March 23, 2000
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Head Over Heels
April 22, 1999
Monica’s Story
by Andrew Morton
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Tru Confessions
January 15, 1998
Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career
by George Plimpton
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On Murray Kempton (1917–1997)
June 12, 1997
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Paradise Lost
June 12, 1997
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
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In the Wasteland
October 31, 1996
The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion
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Family Values
June 6, 1996
In Contempt by Christopher A. Darden
Reasonable Doubts: The O.J. Simpson Case and the Criminal Justice System
by Alan M. Dershowitz
The Search for Justice: A Defense Attorney’s Brief on the O.J. Simpson Case by Robert L. Shapiro
I Want to Tell You by O.J. Simpson
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Reckless People
August 10, 1995
Independence Day by Richard Ford
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The Menendez Show
February 17, 1994
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The Kennedy Scandals
January 14, 1993
JFK: Reckless Youth
by Nigel Hamilton
The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga by Doris Kearns Goodwin
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
A Question of Character: The Life of John F. Kennedy by Thomas C. Reeves
The Founding Father by Richard Whelan
The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power by Garry Wills
Of Kennedys and Kings
by Harris Wofford
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Mary McCarthy in New York
March 26, 1992
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Mastering Masters
November 21, 1991
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Wind from the Prairie
September 26, 1991
Carl Sandburg: A Biography by Penelope Niven
Vachel Lindsay: A Poet in America
by Edgar Lee Masters
Lincoln: The Man
by Edgar Lee Masters
The West-Going Heart: A Life of Vachel Lindsay by Eleanor Ruggles
The Art of the Moving Picture by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, Introduction by Stanley Kauffmann
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On Washington Square
November 22, 1990
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Basic Englishing
October 26, 1989
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Citizen Updike
May 18, 1989
Self-Consciousness: Memoirs by John Updike
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Church Going
August 18, 1988
Jonathan Edwards by Perry Miller
Fathers of the Victorians by Ford K. Brown
Free Love and Heavenly Sinners: The Story of the Great Henry Ward Beecher Scandal by Robert Shaplen
Redemptorama by Carol Flake
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Mrs. Wharton in New York
January 21, 1988
Edith Wharton: Novels (The House of Mirth, The Reef, The Custom of the Country, The Age of Innocence)
The Mother’s Recompense by Edith Wharton
Old New York: False Dawn (The ‘Forties), The Old Maid (The ‘Fifties), The Spark (The ‘Sixties), New Year’s Day (The ‘Seventies) by Edith Wharton
“Bunner Sisters” in Madame de Treymes and Others by Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton: A Biography by R.W.B. Lewis
Portrait of Edith Wharton by Percy Lubbock
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The Fictions of America
June 25, 1987
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The Genius of Margaret Fuller
April 10, 1986
The Letters of Margaret Fuller Vol. 1: 18171838 Vol. 2: 18391841 Vol. 3: 18421844 edited by Robert N. Hudspeth
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
edited by R. W. Emerson, edited by W.H. Channing, edited by J.F. Clarke
Woman in the Nineteenth Century by Margaret Fuller
The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller’s Life and Writings by Bell Gale Chevigny
The Roman Years of Margaret Fuller by Joseph Jay Deiss
Margaret Fuller, American Romantic: A Selection From Her Writings and Correspondence edited with an introduction and notes by Perry Miller
The American Transcendentalists: Their Prose and Poetry edited by Perry Miller
Margaret Fuller Ossoli by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Love-Letters of Margaret Fuller with an introduction by Julia Ward Howe
Italian Nationalism and English Letters by Harry W. Rudman
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The Teller and the Tape
May 30, 1985
Mailer: His Life and Times by Peter Manso
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Cheever, or The Ambiguities
December 20, 1984
Home Before Dark by Susan Cheever
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The Case of Alexandr Bogoslovski
October 11, 1984
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Somebody Out There
August 16, 1984
Something Out There by Nadine Gordimer
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On the Eve: A Story
December 22, 1983
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Ibsen’s Secrets
June 30, 1983
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Eyewitness ARTnews
December 2, 1982
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A Bunch of Reds
March 4, 1982
Reds produced and directed by Warren Beatty, written by Warren Beatty, by Trevor Griffiths
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Back Issues
December 17, 1981
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Bartleby and Manhattan
July 16, 1981
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Love It or Leave It!
April 3, 1980
Imagining America by Peter Conrad
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Boycott Taba
October 11, 1979
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The Portable Canterbury
August 16, 1979
Billy Graham: A Parable of American Righteousness by Marshall Frady
Billy Graham: Evangelist to the World by John Pollock
Angels: God’s Secret Agents by Billy Graham
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Wives and Mistresses
May 18, 1978
Tolstoy Remembered by Tatyana Tolstoy, translated by Derek Coltman
Ada, Countess of Lovelace: Byron’s Legitimate Daughter by Doris Langley Moore
A Captive of Time: My Years with Pasternak by Olga Ivinskaya, translated by Max Hayward
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An Exchange on Fiction
February 3, 1977
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Sense of the Present
November 25, 1976
Speedboat
by Renata Adler
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The Carter Question II: Piety and Politics
August 5, 1976
The Miracle of Jimmy Carter by Howard Norton, by Bob Slosser
The Gift of Inner Healing by Ruth Carter Stapleton
Why Not the Best?
by Jimmy Carter
“I’ll Never Lie to You” Jimmy Carter in His Own Words by Robert W. Turner
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The “Excelsior” Affair
August 5, 1976
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Detained in Ghana
March 4, 1976
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Billie Holiday
March 4, 1976
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A Special Supplement: The Meaning of Vietnam
June 12, 1975
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Timon of Paris
December 12, 1974
Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare, French version by Jean-Claude Carrière, directed by Peter Brook
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Sue and Arabella
November 14, 1974
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Sad Brazil
June 27, 1974
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Philip Rahv (1908–1973)
January 24, 1974
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Writing a Novel
October 18, 1973
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Seduction and Betrayal II
June 14, 1973
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Seduction and Betrayal: I
May 31, 1973
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Bloomsbury and Virginia Woolf
February 8, 1973
Virginia Woolf: A Biography by Quentin Bell
Lytton Strachey: The Really Interesting Question and Other Papers edited by Paul Levy
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Amateurs: Jane Carlyle
December 14, 1972
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Amateurs: Dorothy Wordsworth & Jane Carlyle
November 30, 1972
The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst
by David Nasaw
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On the Election
November 2, 1972
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Working Girls: The Brontës
May 4, 1972
Charlotte Brontë: The Evolution of a Genius by Winifred Gérin
Emily Brontë by Winifred Gérin
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What Happens in Hedda
November 4, 1971
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In Maine
October 7, 1971
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On Sylvia Plath
August 12, 1971
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Crossing the Water (to be published September 8) by Sylvia Plath
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Ibsen’s Secret
April 8, 1971
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Ibsen and Women III: The Rosmersholm Triangle
April 8, 1971
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Ibsen and Women II: Hedda Gabler
March 25, 1971
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A Doll’s House
March 11, 1971
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School of the Arts
January 7, 1971
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Militant Nudes
January 7, 1971
Gimme Shelter Directed by David Maysles, by Albert Maysles, by Charlotte Zwerin
Ice Directed by Robert Kramer
Dance the Eagle to Sleep by Marge Piercy
Trash Produced by Andy Warhol, directed by Paul Morrissey
The Groupies Directed by Ron Dorfman, by Peter Nevard
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Caesar’s Things
September 24, 1970
Zelda by Nancy Milford
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Useful Critic
July 2, 1970
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The Theater of Grotowski
February 12, 1970
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Scalp!
November 6, 1969
The Serpent by Jean Claude van Itallie, directed by Joe Chaikin
Indians by Arthur Kopit, directed by Gene Frankel
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Dead Souls
June 5, 1969
Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story by Carlos Baker
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Reflections on Fiction
February 13, 1969
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Mr. America
November 7, 1968
Wallace by Marshall Frady
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Chicago
September 26, 1968
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Notes on the New Theater
June 20, 1968
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The Apotheosis of Martin Luther King
May 9, 1968
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Violence in Oakland
May 9, 1968
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Lark Pie
February 1, 1968
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The Whole Hog
February 1, 1968
The Great White Hope by Howard Sackler, Directed by Edwin Sherin. produced by Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.)
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Raising Hellman
January 18, 1968
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The Little Foxes Revived
December 21, 1967
The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman, produced by Saint Subber, directed by Mike Nichols
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The Crown Jewels
October 12, 1967
Twenty Letters to a Friend by Svetlana Alliluyeva
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Regis Debray
July 13, 1967
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Critics
June 1, 1967
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Blow-Up
April 20, 1967
The Death of a President
by William Manchester
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Word of Mouth
April 6, 1967
La Turista by Sam Shepard
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Hurrah!
February 23, 1967
American Hurrah by Jean-Claude van Itallie, Directed by Jacques Levy
The Homecoming
by Harold Pinter, Directed by Peter Hall
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The Theater of Sentimentality
December 15, 1966
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Auschwitz in New York
November 3, 1966
The Investigation by Peter Weiss
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Straight Play
October 20, 1966
A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee
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The Theater of Decadence
April 28, 1966
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After Watts
March 31, 1966
Violence in the CityAn End or a Beginning? by A Report by the Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots
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We Are All Murderers
March 3, 1966
The Condemned of Altona by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Theater in New York
January 6, 1966
The Country Wife by William Wycherley
Inadmissible Evidence by John Osborne
The Devils by John Whiting
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Wilson and the Academy
December 23, 1965
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A Death at Lincoln Center
November 25, 1965
Danton’s Death by Georg Büchner
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Sense and Sensibility
August 5, 1965
The King of the Cats and Other Remarks on Writers and Writing by F.W. Dupee
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Selma, Alabama: The Charms of Goodness
April 22, 1965
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The Oswald Family
November 5, 1964
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Flannery O’Connor, 1925–1964
October 8, 1964
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Sex and the Single Man
August 20, 1964
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
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Lincoln Center
April 30, 1964
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The Disaster at Lincoln Center
April 2, 1964
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The Family Way
February 6, 1964
The Wapshot Scandal by John Cheever
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Grub Street: Washington
January 23, 1964
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Frost in His Letters
October 31, 1963
The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer
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Grub Street: New York
February 1, 1963
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Ring
February 1, 1963
The Ring Lardner Reader edited by Maxwell Geismar