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Ezra Pound
April 30, 2018
Jeet Heer
Is Kanye West “the Ezra Pound of Rap”?
The rapper's flirtation with right-wing politics renews an age-old debate about art and politics.
August 5, 2014
Jed Perl
Liberals Are Killing Art
How the Left became obsessed with ideology over beauty
January 25, 2012
Peter Green
The First Fine Careless Rapture
November 23, 2011
Christopher Benfey
The Blooming Foreigner
August 24, 2011
Helen Vendler
The Instructors
January 12, 2011
Leon Wieseltier
Excellent New Art
August 6, 2010
Rochelle Gurstein
The Look of Time
April 20, 2010
Helen Vendler
Between the Potency and the Existence
May 20, 2009
Adam Kirsch
Disturbances of Peace
January 22, 2007
Christopher Benfey
Dark Darker Darkest
May 23, 1994
Bernard Knox
The Lost Lesbian
July 4, 1988
Erich Segal
Heroes and Echoes
November 29, 1969
Reed Whittemore
Housmaning Into the Seventies
April 1, 1957
Jack LaZebnik
The Case of Ezra Pound
The story of the famous poet's arraignment for treason and confinement to a mental hospital.

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