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Andrew Levy

Andrew Levy  is a professor of English at Butler University. He is the author of four books, including Huck Finn’s America and A Brain Wider Than the Sky. His essays and reviews have appeared in Harper’s, The Best American Essays, The Missouri Review, and the Scholar.

The Power of Restraint

The Power of Restraint

We must find a better way to commemorate 9/11

by Andrew Levy | Monday, May 31, 2021

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Lunching on Olympus

by Steven L. Isenberg

W. H. Auden, E. M. Forster, Philip Larkin, and William Empson are among the most renowned English writers of the 20th century. In this 2009 essay, Steven L. Isenberg writes that “the four have another thing in common, the unlikely and unexpected occasions of my having met each of them for lunch. … While I kept no diary and so remember fewer of their words than I wish, the memories I do have are testimony to their humanity and kindness.”

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