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Walt Whitman
October 26, 2021
Ian Beacock
The Democracy Walt Whitman Wanted
A new book argues that Whitman’s celebration of fellow feeling could unite America today.
March 8, 2019
Max Fox
In Search of Brooklyn’s Queer Past
Hugh Ryan’s book traces a largely forgotten history.
February 21, 2017
Jeet Heer
A newly discovered Walt Whitman novel shows why he became a poet instead.
January 20, 2016
Jeet Heer
Sarah Palin: The Walt Whitman of Wasilla
Donald Trump's new sidekick belongs to a noble American poetic tradition.
November 19, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
A Poem and A Logo: What Walt Whitman Gave The New Republic
October 17, 2014
David M. Friedman
Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Once Spent an Afternoon Together. Here's What Happened.
October 7, 2014
Martha C. Nussbaum
It's Time to Take Back Our Aging, Smelly Bodies
Why it's important to resist shame and disgust
March 26, 2014
Malcolm Cowley
The Miracle of Walt Whitman
November 23, 2011
Christopher Benfey
The Blooming Foreigner
May 16, 2005
David Hajdu
Heart Music
April 24, 1995
Sean Wilentz
The Air Around Tom Paine
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