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

Knut Hamsun’s Pan

A throbbing world of sensation and heartbreak

By Robert Roper | Monday March 21, 2016

Knut Hamsun’s Pan

A throbbing world of sensation and heartbreak

By Robert Roper | Monday July 27, 2015

Net Gains

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

By Robert Roper | Monday June 8, 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 1, 2008

Glorious Dust

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

By Robert Roper | Friday December 1, 2006

Brotherly Medicine

By Robert Roper | Thursday July 16, 2020

Knut Hamsun’s Pan

By Robert Roper | Monday March 21, 2016

Knut Hamsun’s Pan

By Robert Roper | Monday July 27, 2015

Net Gains

By Robert Roper | Monday June 8, 2015

Collateral Damage

By Robert Roper | Monday December 1, 2008

Glorious Dust

By Robert Roper | Friday December 1, 2006

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