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Evan Kindley

Evan Kindley is an associate editor at The Chronicle of Higher Education. His book The New York School: Poetry, Art, and Friendship in Midcentury Manhattan will be published next year.


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September 25, 2026
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How Edgar Allan Poe Mined His Own Misery
In Emily Ogden’s new book, Poe is not a concocter of hokey ghost stories. He is an excavator of repressed emotion.
December 4, 2025
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Gertrude Stein’s Preparations for the Afterlife
The author knew recognition of her works would take time—and planned accordingly.
August 1, 2023
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Colson Whitehead’s Ode to 1970s New York
In “Crook Manifesto,” everything is a racket—even history.
November 30, 2022
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The Love Song of T.S. Eliot
For 26 years, Eliot wrote intense, passionate letters to Emily Hale. Should they change the way we read his poetry?
January 31, 2022
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Have Method Actors Gone Too Far?
Some actors go to extremes to get into character. It wasn’t meant to be that way.
April 14, 2021
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How Americans Lost Their Fervor for Freedom
Louis Menand’s new book traces the decline of a defining ideal.
August 18, 2020
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William Faulkner’s Southern Guilt
In disastrous interviews and his most famous novels, he struggled to reckon with racism and white supremacy.
November 30, 2018
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Strange Ambitions
Edward Gorey’s lifelong experiments in the absurd and unsettling
September 6, 2017
Evan Kindley
How Should We Grieve John Ashbery?
The poet died this week at 90.
July 17, 2017
Evan Kindley
The Mysteries of John Ashbery
A new biography tells how the poet formed a taste for ambiguity and indirection.
July 22, 2016
Evan Kindley
Nuts!: A Questionable Cure for Impotence
Penny Lane's new documentary traces the life of quack doctor John Romulus Brinkley.
April 18, 2016
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Scandal in Bohemia
Jill Lepore uncovers racism and sexual harassment in the life of a Greenwich Village hero.
November 4, 2015
Evan Kindley
Kurt Vonnegut’s Electric Literature
The author’s inspired years among the scientists at General Electric.
October 12, 2015
Evan Kindley
Paul Thomas Anderson Has Made His Version of ‘The Last Waltz'
'Junun' shows the making of Jonny Greenwood and Shye Ben Tzur's new album
September 22, 2015
Evan Kindley
Down the Rabbit Hole
The rise, and rise, of literary annotation
July 7, 2015
Evan Kindley
My Idol, the "Worst Rapper Ever"
June 17, 2013
Evan Kindley
Dear TV: 'Mad Men' Season Six: Episode 12, Post 1
Don Draper as Hamlet
June 10, 2013
Evan Kindley
Dear TV: 'Mad Men' Season Six: Episode 11, Post 2
'Mad Men' channels Freud
June 3, 2013
Evan Kindley
Dear TV: 'Mad Men' Season Six Episode 10, Post 1
'Mad Men' does Joan Didion
May 13, 2013
Evan Kindley
Dear TV: 'Mad Men' Season Six: Episode 7, Post 2
The chemistry of Don and Ted

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