Robert Roper

Robert Roper is the author most recently of Nabokov in America and The Savage Professor, a novel.

Brotherly Medicine

The poet who helped bind up the nation’s wounds

by Robert Roper | Thursday, July 16, 2020

Net Gains

Nabokov's profitable summer chasing butterflies and settling scores in the Utah mountains

by Robert Roper | Monday, June 08, 2015

Knut Hamsun’s Pan

A throbbing world of sensation and heartbreak

by Robert Roper | Monday, March 21, 2016

Glorious Dust

The posthumous masterwork of an influential black historian tells how slavery itself undermined the Confederacy

by Robert Roper | Friday, December 01, 2006

Knut Hamsun’s Pan

A throbbing world of sensation and heartbreak

by Robert Roper | Monday, July 27, 2015

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

by Robert Roper | Monday, December 01, 2008