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