Reviewed in the LRB - Vol. 47 No. 22

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Braiding together biography and criticism, Adam Plunkett challenges our understanding of Robert Frost’s life and poetic legacy in a pathbreaking new work.By the middle of the twentieth century, Robert Frost was the best-loved poet in…

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The first history of one of London’s most extraordinary streets. Running along the Thames’s northern shore and spanning three-quarters of a mile from Trafalgar Square to Temple Bar, the Strand has been a witness to…

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An engaging biography of one of the most influential Western philosophers and a thought-provoking exploration of how to live with Arthur Schopenhauer’s pessimism.Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) almost wasn’t one of the…

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The things that hold life in place have been lifted off and put away. Uprooted by circumstance from city to deep countryside, a woman lives in temporary limbo, visited by memories of all she’s left behind. The most insistent are those…

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Translated by Margaret Jull CostaThe Peruvian poet César Vallejo—one of Latin America’s most famous writers, along with Pablo Neruda—began publishing his poems in 1914 after discovering the works of Walt…