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William Faulkner
May 13, 2021
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The Undefeated
Ernest Hemingway’s one enduring character? Ernest Hemingway.
August 18, 2020
Magazine
William Faulkner’s Southern Guilt
In disastrous interviews and his most famous novels, he struggled to reckon with racism and white supremacy.
October 11, 2017
Magazine
Long Divisions
The history of racism and exclusion in the United States is the history of whiteness.
March 22, 2017
Derek Walcott’s Dueling Legacies
When we assess the reputation of a great man, can we still prioritize the work over the life?
January 15, 2016
This is like that time Faulkner told his daughter, “Nobody remembers Shakespeare’s child.”
January 4, 2016
The New York Public Library has William Faulkner smut, but you have to dig for it.
July 6, 2012
From the Archives: William Faulkner’s First Published Work
July 3, 2012
Bangalore’s Booze and Poland’s Outrage: Today’s TNR Reader
December 10, 2008
In Defense Of 'sanctuary'
December 11, 2000
William Faulkner Noun, Place and Verb
A poem
January 1, 1970
"What Shall Become of His Dreams?"
December 7, 1959
Faulkner: End of a Road

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