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Christopher Benfey is the Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke. He is the author of five books, including Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay: Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival and, most recently, IF: The Untold Story of Kipling’s American Years. (July 2020)
The Opposite of Ordinary
Cunningham
a documentary film directed by Alla Kovgan
Dancing with Merce Cunningham
by Marianne Preger-Simon, with a foreword by Stuart Hodes and an afterword by Alastair Macaulay
Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)
by John Cage, edited by Joe Biel and Richard Kraft, with an afterword by David W. Rose
Love, Icebox: Letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham
with a foreword, commentary, and afterword by Laura Kuhn
Merce Cunningham: After the Arbitrary
by Carrie Noland
July 2, 2020 issue
Cornering the Word Market
The Dictionary Wars: The American Fight Over the English Language
by Peter Martin
June 27, 2019 issue
Is It Like Japan Yet?
Van Gogh and Japan
by Louis van Tilborgh, Nienke Bakker, Cornelia Homburg, Tsukasa Kōdera, and Chris Uhlenbeck, with a contribution by Claire Guitton
Japan’s Love for Impressionism: From Monet to Renoir
edited by the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany
December 20, 2018 issue
Coffins and Jukeboxes
American Witness: The Art and Life of Robert Frank
by R.J. Smith
Robert Frank: Film Works
edited by Laura Israel
The Lines of My Hand
by Robert Frank
August 16, 2018 issue
The Loved One
Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Uncompleted Writings
by Herman Melville, edited by Harrison Hayford, Alma A. MacDougall, Robert A. Sandberg, and G. Thomas Tanselle, with a historical note by Hershel Parker
May 10, 2018 issue
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