Brotherly Medicine
The poet who helped bind up the nation’s wounds
Knut Hamsun’s Pan
A throbbing world of sensation and heartbreak
Knut Hamsun’s Pan
A throbbing world of sensation and heartbreak
Net Gains
Nabokov’s profitable summer chasing butterflies and settling scores in the Utah mountains
Collateral Damage
The Civil War only enhanced George Whitman’s soldierly satisfaction; for his brother Walt, however, the horrors halted an outpouring of great poetry
Glorious Dust
The posthumous masterwork of an influential black historian tells how slavery itself undermined the Confederacy