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“The ways we miss our lives are life,” Randall Jarrell observed in his poem “A Girl in a Library.” Anne Enright, the Irish writer who won the 2007 Man Booker Prize for her dark novel “The Gathering,” counts some of the ways people miss their lives in ...
From CHRISTOPHER BENFEY, The New York Times, 5 Sep 2008
How did a practice as vile as branding become so valued, indeed, the very mark of value? Officials in the past have branded slaves and criminals remember Milady’s fleur-de-lis in “The Three Musketeers”? Samuel Maverick didn’t brand his cattle, but ...
From CHRISTOPHER BENFEY, The New York Times, 1 Aug 2008
How did a practice as vile as branding become so valued, indeed, the very mark of value? Officials in the past have branded slaves and criminals - remember Milady's fleur-de-lis in "The Three Musketeers"? Samuel Maverick didn't brand his cattle, but ...
Christopher Benfey is Mellon professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His latest book, A Summer of Hummingbirds, about writers and artists in Gilded Age America, has just been published by the Penguin Press.
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From CHRISTOPHER BENFEY, Slate, 9 Jul 2008
Nonfiction has to be true, of course, but it doesn't have to be believable, which may help explain why so many recent best-sellers are of the Ripley's variety. Coincidences that no novelist could get away with happen all the time in "real life." And ...
From CHRISTOPHER BENFEY, Slate, 23 Jun 2008
Christopher Benfey is Mellon professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His latest book, A Summer of Hummingbirds, about writers and artists in Gilded Age America, has just been published by the Penguin Press.
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From CHRISTOPHER BENFEY, Slate, 4 Jun 2008
Christopher Benfey is Mellon professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His latest book, A Summer of Hummingbirds, about writers and artists in Gilded Age America, has just been published by the Penguin Press.
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From CHRISTOPHER BENFEY, Slate, 30 Apr 2008
Fresh out of graduate school, I interviewed long ago for a teaching job at a posh girls’ school. The dean explained that while the institution had its traditions, it was very up-to-date. “We have compulsory chapel,” she informed me with a confidential ...
From CHRISTOPHER BENFEY, The New York Times, 18 Apr 2008
Click here to read a slide-show essay about the arcane history of porcelain.
Christopher Benfey is Mellon professor of English at Mount Holyoke and has written many art reviews for Slate.
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From CHRISTOPHER BENFEY, Slate, 2 Apr 2008
Christopher Benfey is Mellon professor of English at Mount Holyoke and has written many art reviews for Slate.
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From CHRISTOPHER BENFEY, Slate, 20 Feb 2008
