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Michelle Herman

Michelle Herman ’s ninth book, the novel Close-Up, is due in autumn 2021. She teaches at Ohio State, writes a weekly parenting advice column for Slate, and spends the rest of her time dancing.

Armed for a Pandemic

Armed for a Pandemic

A dance troupe’s film project holds loneliness at bay

by Michelle Herman | Monday, February 22, 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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