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July 8, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Is Already Flipping on His Brand New Tariff Deadline
Donald Trump set a new tariff deadline of August 1—except not really, apparently.
January 8, 2024
Scott Bradfield
Flaubert Versus the World
The writer’s collected letters are a glorious escape from the annoyances of social life into the splendor of prose.
July 23, 2021
Jo Livingstone
The Wicked Wit of Shirley Jackson
In her rivetingly funny letters, the author of “The Lottery” transformed the stuff of daily life into magic.
March 20, 2019
MagazineJeet Heer
Adventures in Modernism
The unlikely, energizing friendship of Hugh Kenner and Guy Davenport
June 27, 2017
MagazineKyle Chayka
Nowhere Mag
Can Monocle's globalist chic survive in an age of populism?
May 18, 2015
Steve Friess
A Liberator, But Never Free
May 8, 2014
Hillary Kelly
Humane and Heartbreaking Letters from the Last Five Centuries
March 1, 2014
Malcolm Cowley
The Letters of Malcolm Cowley
October 13, 2013
Christopher Benfey
Willa Cather’s Correspondence Reveals Something New
The rage of a great American novelist
April 3, 2013
Alice Gregory
Pen Pals
When famous authors write to each other
August 24, 2011
Helen Vendler
The Instructors
September 19, 1983
Victor Brombert
Sincerely, M. Proust
Marcel Proust's early letters foreshadow the great novel to come
July 8, 1931
C.D. Thorpe
John Keats's Passionate, Lusty Letters Are the Key to His Poems

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